Hail in De Kalb Jul 3, 2026
Hit 31 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 16 hail signatures up to 2.5", and the radar-estimated size reached 1" aloft. At 2.5" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
2.5"
≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature529
0
none filedThe most severe storm De Kalb has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 63 /100
- Homes exposed
- 54 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How De Kalb 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.
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.
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.
Where Jul 3, 2026 sits in De Kalb's hail record
This was De Kalb's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 68 days after the Apr 26, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over De Kalb at 2.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 3, 2026 convective day was bigger than De Kalb: the same system put hail over 1,885 other tracked cities, 43 of them in Missouri. Nearest: Rushville (5 miles west, up to 2.25"); Faucett (5 miles east, up to 1.75"); Atchison (11 miles west, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills from De Kalb's Jul 3, 2026 storm. In the Overview app the same surfaces are live — radar updating in real time, radar-estimated hail size as it forms, and NWS spotter reports pinned where they're filed — with a radar replay you can scrub back over any past day.
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 De Kalb. 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.
What 2.5" hail means for De Kalb roofs
Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.
$6.3M
Potential roof exposure — 529 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over De Kalb on the live map
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6 recorded storm days in De Kalb, MO
Other storms in De Kalb
Jul 10, 2026
2.5"
Apr 26, 2026
1.25"
Apr 17, 2026
1.75"
Apr 3, 2026
1"
Mar 31, 2026