NOAA weather radar detected hail over 37 of the 1000 US cities we track on this date, across 6 states (CO, IA, IL, IN, OH, WV) — 213 radar detections in total. The most active was Fort Wayne, IN with 27.
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 |
|---|---|
| Fort Wayne, IN | 27 |
| Aurora, IL | 16 |
| Naperville, IL | 11 |
| Elmhurst, IL | 10 |
| Gary, IN | 9 |
| Iowa City, IA | 9 |
| Urbandale, IA | 9 |
| West Des Moines, IA | 9 |
| Carol Stream, IL | 8 |
| Wheaton, IL | 8 |
| Chicago, IL | 7 |
| Cicero, IL | 7 |
| Downers Grove, IL | 7 |
| Broomfield, CO | 6 |
| Oak Lawn, IL | 6 |
| Orland Park, IL | 6 |
| Romeoville, IL | 6 |
| Tinley Park, IL | 6 |
| Addison, IL | 5 |
| Berwyn, IL | 5 |
| Lombard, IL | 5 |
| Oak Park, IL | 5 |
| Arvada, CO | 3 |
| Cedar Rapids, IA | 3 |
| Plainfield, IL | 3 |
| Davenport, IA | 2 |
| Des Moines, IA | 2 |
| Longmont, CO | 2 |
| Park Ridge, IL | 2 |
| Rock Island, IL | 2 |
| Bolingbrook, IL | 1 |
| Boulder, CO | 1 |
| Charleston, WV | 1 |
| Des Plaines, IL | 1 |
| Evanston, IL | 1 |
| Skokie, IL | 1 |
| Springfield, OH | 1 |
These are city-centre tiles. To see whether radar registered hail over your street on May 17, 2019 — 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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