Hail size 1"
3 NW Westville Porter County
“Relayed via mping. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Chesterton Mar 10, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.25" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Chesterton this day.
Largest hailstone
1.25"
≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
22,431
Ground reports
2
2 hailThe most severe storm Chesterton has seen in the last 12 months
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
4.6 /10
- Hail size
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 87 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Chesterton saw the hail — from two instruments
Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.
Max size
1.25"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Mar 10, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Chesterton, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Mar 10, 2026 sits in Chesterton's hail record
This was Chesterton's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Chesterton at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Mar 10, 2026 convective day was bigger than Chesterton: the same system put hail over 470 other tracked cities, 21 of them in Indiana. Nearest: Westville (6 miles southeast, up to 1.25"); Valparaiso (7 miles south, up to 1.25"); Portage (10 miles west, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from Chesterton's Mar 10, 2026 storm. In the Overview app the same surfaces are live — radar updating in real time, radar-estimated hail size as it forms, and NWS spotter reports pinned where they're filed — with a radar replay you can scrub back over any past day.
What people on the ground reported
These are storm reports filed with the National Weather Service and released through the NOAA Storm Prediction Center — public-domain observations from spotters, the public, and NWS surveys. We quote each one exactly as filed.
Hail reports
2 reports Hail size 1"
6 ESE Chesterton Porter County
“Quarter size hail reported along I-90 near 550 East Road. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Hail was reported over 13 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Westville — beyond Chesterton itself.
What 1.25" hail means for Chesterton roofs
Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$269M
Potential roof exposure — 22,431 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
112 jobs
Illustrative work
~$1.7M
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around March 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Chesterton on the live map
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Chesterton hail history
← All hail in Chesterton 4 recorded storm days in Chesterton, IN
Other storms in Chesterton
A storm day here is a convective day — it runs from noon to noon
UTC, so late-night hail is grouped with the afternoon storm that
spawned it rather than split across two calendar dates. Ground
reports are public-domain observations from the NOAA Storm
Prediction Center. Radar surfaces are detections and estimates,
not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.