Hail in Westville · Jul 20, 2026
NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1"; the estimated-size surface had no signal that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Jul 20, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 8th most severe storm Westville 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
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /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 Westville 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.
Radar signature field The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Jul 20, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Jul 20, 2026 sits in Westville's hail record.
This was Westville's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 18 days after the Jul 2, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 8th of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Westville at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 20, 2026 convective day was bigger than Westville: the same system put hail over 553 other tracked cities, 15 of them in Indiana. Nearest: Valparaiso (12 miles southwest, up to 1"); Gary (21 miles west, up to 1"); Hammond (31 miles west, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 8 Westville 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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Westville for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Westville 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
Westville hail history
Other storms in Westville.
Estimated-size surface Aug 12, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 11, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 27, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 2, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 11, 2026
1"
NEXRAD surface Mar 26, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Mar 10, 2026
1.25"The next storm won’t wait for you.
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