Hail in Westville · Jul 27, 2026
Convective day · Jul 27, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 3rd 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
- 73 /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
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
Estimated size field The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 27, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Westville, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Jul 27, 2026 sits in Westville's hail record.
This was Westville's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 7 days after the Jul 20, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Westville at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 27, 2026 convective day was bigger than Westville: the same system put hail over 803 other tracked cities, 71 of them in Indiana. Nearest: Chesterton (5 miles west, up to 1"); Michigan City (9 miles northeast, up to 1.5"); Beverly Shores (9 miles northwest, up to 1.5").
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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Westville. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.
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
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$55M
Potential roof exposure — 4,569 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 23 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$345K
Close just 0.5% of the 4,569 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 $959 on top of the $150 plan.
Westville hail history
Other storms in Westville.
Estimated-size surface Aug 12, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 11, 2026
1"
NEXRAD surface Jul 20, 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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