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— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Gas City · Apr 14, 2026
Convective day · Apr 14, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 2nd most severe storm Gas City 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
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 79 /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 Gas City 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 Apr 14, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Gas City, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Apr 14, 2026 sits in Gas City's hail record.
This was Gas City's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 19 days after the Mar 26, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Gas City at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 14, 2026 convective day was bigger than Gas City: the same system put hail over 476 other tracked cities, 37 of them in Indiana. Nearest: Marion (5 miles east, up to 2.25"); Van Buren (9 miles northeast, up to 0.75"); Swayzee (11 miles west, up to 2.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 4 Gas City 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 Marion — beyond Gas City itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1.25" hail means for Gas City roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$112M
Potential roof exposure — 9,298 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 46 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$690K
Close just 0.5% of the 9,298 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
April 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around April 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 $1,953 on top of the $150 plan.
Gas City hail history
Other storms in Gas City.
Aug 11, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Mar 26, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 22, 2026
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