Hail in Terre Haute · Jul 17, 2026
Convective day · Jul 17, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 9th most severe storm Terre Haute 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
- 49 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Terre Haute 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 Jul 17, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Terre Haute, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Jul 17, 2026 sits in Terre Haute's hail record.
This was Terre Haute's 11th recorded hail day, arriving 8 days after the Jul 9, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 9th of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Terre Haute at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Terre Haute: the same system put hail over 415 other tracked cities, 3 of them in Indiana. Nearest: Nashville (58 miles east, up to 0.5"); Olney (64 miles southwest, up to 0.5"); Seymour (85 miles east, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 13 Terre Haute 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.
For this storm over Terre Haute, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Terre Haute 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
$3.4M
Potential roof exposure — 281 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 1 job
- Illustrative work
- ~$15K
Close just 0.5% of the 281 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
July 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 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 $59 on top of the $150 plan.
Terre Haute hail history
Other storms in Terre Haute.
Estimated-size surface Aug 11, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 27, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 9, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 4, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 17, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface May 15, 2026
Estimated-size surface May 4, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface May 3, 2026
Estimated-size surface Apr 27, 2026
1.75"
NEXRAD surface Mar 31, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Mar 22, 2026
1"
NEXRAD surface Mar 3, 2026
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