Hail in Belleville · Sep 12, 2026
Convective day · Sep 12, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 7th most severe storm Belleville 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
- 48 /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 Belleville 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 Sep 12, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Belleville, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Sep 12, 2026 sits in Belleville's hail record.
This was Belleville's 11th recorded hail day, arriving 29 days after the Aug 14, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 7th of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Belleville at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Sep 12, 2026 convective day was bigger than Belleville: the same system put hail over 354 other tracked cities, 113 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Scandia (5 miles west, up to 1.25"); Concordia (10 miles south, up to 1.75"); Clyde (15 miles southeast, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 11 Belleville 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 Belleville, 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.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1.25" hail means for Belleville 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
$2.9M
Potential roof exposure — 242 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 242 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
September 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around September 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 $51 on top of the $150 plan.
Belleville hail history
Other storms in Belleville.
Estimated-size surface Aug 14, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 3, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 20, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 13, 2026
2.75"
Estimated-size surface May 30, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface May 18, 2026
3.25"
Estimated-size surface May 16, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Apr 14, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Apr 11, 2026
2.75"
Estimated-size surface Apr 9, 2026
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