Hail on October 6, 2026: where it hit
No ground hail reports for October 6, 2026 are in the archived NWS Local Storm Reports; the radar swath map is the record for this day. Every number below is the public record: reported sizes from spotters and radar-estimated swaths from NOAA MRMS, labeled as what they are.
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Questions about the October 6, 2026 hail
How big was the hail on October 6, 2026?
No measured sizes were reported on October 6, 2026. Radar (NOAA MRMS MESH) also estimated the swath footprint, an estimate, not a measurement.
Did the October 6, 2026 hail hit my address?
Use the hail map's address search: it lists every dated report within 25 miles of any US address and, for days in the radar archive, tests your exact point against the estimated swath, then prints a sourced report you can keep.
How these figures are built
Reports are NWS Local Storm Reports of hail, pulled from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet archive. Local Storm Reports are preliminary and unverified: sizes are what spotters, the public and emergency managers reported, and NOAA NCEI's Storm Data, published months later, is the verified record. A report with no size counts toward the total but not toward the size figures. Damaging size means 1 inch or larger, the National Weather Service severe-hail size. State is the state named on the report. County is not carried in the archived file; it is assigned here by placing each report's coordinates (rounded to about 1 km) inside US Census cartographic county boundaries, so a report near a county line can land in the neighbouring county. Radar figures are NOAA MRMS MESH, a radar estimate of maximum hail size, not a measurement.