“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (IND)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Delphi · Feb 18, 2026
Convective day · Feb 18, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 4th most severe storm Delphi has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 57 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Delphi saw the hail — from two instruments
Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.
Estimated size field Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Feb 18, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Delphi, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Feb 18, 2026 sits in Delphi's hail record.
This was Delphi's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 4th of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Delphi at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Feb 18, 2026 convective day was bigger than Delphi: the same system put hail over 19 other tracked cities, 11 of them in Indiana. Nearest: Logansport (16 miles east, up to 0.75"); Oxford (30 miles southwest, up to 0.5"); Peru (32 miles east, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 5 Delphi storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
Ground reports
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
1 reportStorm forensics
How the storm moved
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Reports came from Yeoman — beyond Delphi itself.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Delphi roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$8.9M
Potential roof exposure — 740 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 4 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$60K
Close just 0.5% of the 740 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.
Claim window
February 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around February 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $155 on top of the $150 plan.
Delphi hail history
Other storms in Delphi.
Estimated-size surface Aug 11, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 10, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 16, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Apr 14, 2026
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