NOAA weather radar detected hail over 43 of the 1000 US cities we track on this date, across 9 states (IA, IL, KS, MI, MO, NY, OH, TX, WV) — 354 radar detections in total. The most active was Des Plaines, IL with 56.
Check a specific address for this date →These dates are GMT, not local. GMT runs 5–8 hours ahead of the US, so a storm that hit at 8:30 PM local on one evening is recorded here under the following date. Evening storms are the norm across the Plains and the Southeast. If you are writing a date of loss on a claim form, check the local time — being one day off is a real reason a carrier can push back.
| City | Radar detections |
|---|---|
| Des Plaines, IL | 56 |
| Park Ridge, IL | 42 |
| Evanston, IL | 23 |
| Skokie, IL | 23 |
| Mount Prospect, IL | 16 |
| Oak Lawn, IL | 16 |
| Wheeling, IL | 16 |
| Carol Stream, IL | 13 |
| Wheaton, IL | 13 |
| Glenview, IL | 12 |
| Romeoville, IL | 12 |
| Abilene, TX | 9 |
| Berwyn, IL | 8 |
| Moline, IL | 8 |
| Oak Park, IL | 8 |
| Portage, MI | 8 |
| Hanover Park, IL | 6 |
| Middletown, OH | 6 |
| Orland Park, IL | 6 |
| Schaumburg, IL | 6 |
| Tinley Park, IL | 5 |
| Addison, IL | 4 |
| East Lansing, MI | 4 |
| Lombard, IL | 4 |
| Huntington, WV | 3 |
| Davenport, IA | 2 |
| Joliet, IL | 2 |
| Lenexa, KS | 2 |
| Overland Park, KS | 2 |
| Plainfield, IL | 2 |
| Rochester, NY | 2 |
| Rock Island, IL | 2 |
| Shawnee, KS | 2 |
| St. Joseph, MO | 2 |
| Binghamton, NY | 1 |
| Chicago, IL | 1 |
| Columbia, MO | 1 |
| Elmhurst, IL | 1 |
| Lansing, MI | 1 |
| Lima, OH | 1 |
| O'Fallon, MO | 1 |
| Olathe, KS | 1 |
| St. Peters, MO | 1 |
These are city-centre tiles. To see whether radar registered hail over your street on May 4, 2012 — and every other date going back to 1992 — run the free address lookup. No signup, no account, and you can download the result as a CSV.
Look up your address →What a detection means. Counts describe a 0.1° grid tile — roughly 7 miles north to south — containing the city, not a specific address. A detection inside the tile does not prove hail fell on any particular roof, and no detection does not prove none fell. This is a screening tool, not an insurance claim, a loss report, or an engineering inspection.
NOAA NCEI Severe Weather Data Inventory,
dataset nx3hail — NEXRAD Level-III Hail Detection Algorithm output. Public-domain US
government data.
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