Hail size 2"
Bedford Cuyahoga County
“Picture of hail slightly over 2 inch in diameter hail received from Bedford. (CLE)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Cleveland Apr 15, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Cleveland this day.
Largest hailstone
1.75"
≈ golf ball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
47,979
Ground reports
6
6 hailThe most severe storm Cleveland has seen in the last 12 months
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
6.5 /10
- Hail size
- 44 /100
- Homes exposed
- 94 /100
- Ground truth
- 100 /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 Cleveland saw the hail — from two instruments
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
Radar-estimated hail size
Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Max size
1.75"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 15, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Cleveland, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 15, 2026 sits in Cleveland's hail record
This was Cleveland's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 3 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Cleveland at 1.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Cleveland: the same system put hail over 425 other tracked cities, 34 of them in Ohio. Nearest: Bedford (5 miles east, up to 2"); Twinsburg (12 miles southeast, up to 1.5"); Akron (14 miles south, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills from Cleveland's Apr 15, 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.
Hail reports
6 reports Hail size 1.75"
1 SW Maple Heights Cuyahoga County
“(CLE)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.5"
1 NNE Seven Hills Cuyahoga County
“(CLE)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2"
1 N Seven Hills Cuyahoga County
“Updated previous hail report from 1 N Seven Hills to 2 inch diameter hail. (CLE)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
1 NE Parma Cuyahoga County
“(CLE)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
1 ESE Parma Heights Cuyahoga County
“(CLE)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Hail was reported over 16 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Bedford, Maple Heights, Seven Hills, Parma, and Parma Heights — beyond Cleveland itself.
What 1.75" hail means for Cleveland roofs
At an inch and a half, hail cracks shingles, strips granules down to the mat, and dents gutters, vents, and siding. A footprint like this typically produces a wave of insurance claims — and the contractor who reaches the homeowner first usually gets the inspection.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$576M
Potential roof exposure — 47,979 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
240 jobs
Illustrative work
~$3.6M
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around April 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Cleveland on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Cleveland storm history — this Apr 15, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.
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Cleveland hail history
← All hail in Cleveland 3 recorded storm days in Cleveland, OH
Other storms in Cleveland
A storm day here is a convective day — it runs from noon to noon
UTC, so late-night hail is grouped with the afternoon storm that
spawned it rather than split across two calendar dates. Ground
reports are public-domain observations from the NOAA Storm
Prediction Center. Radar surfaces are detections and estimates,
not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.