Hail in Chicago on Sunday, June 8, 2025
The Storm Prediction Center logged 16 hail reports in Chicago on Sunday, June 8, 2025, between 2:43 pm and 2:58 pm CDT, in 1 of the metro's 7 counties. The largest was 2.50 inches at 1 SSW Batavia (Kane County) at 2:57 pm. NOAA radar flagged 681 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 35 rated a 100% chance of hail and 92 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 2 places in Kane County, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Batavia 14 reports, up to 2.50 in
- Elburn 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
Every hail report logged that day
Times are Central Daylight Time. Sizes are in inches, as reported. The comment is the National Weather Service's text as published in the Storm Prediction Center's daily log.
| Time | Size | Place | County | NWS comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:43 pm | 1.00 | 1 SE Elburn | Kane | Multiple public reports of quarter size hail in Elburn. Time estimated from radar. (LOT) |
| 2:45 pm | 1.75 | 1 ESE Elburn | Kane | Hail ranged from quarter to golf ball size on the southwest side of Geneva. (LOT) |
| 2:48 pm | 1.75 | 3 WNW Batavia | Kane | Corrects location of previous hail report from 1 ESE Elburn. Hail ranged from quarter to golf ball size on the southwest side of Geneva. (LOT) |
| 2:54 pm | 1.50 | 4 W Batavia | Kane | Photo shared of a hailstone just under 1.5 inches in diameter. (LOT) |
| 2:54 pm | 2.00 | 2 WNW Batavia | Kane | 2 inch diameter hail reported near Fabyan Parkway and Branson Drive in Batavia. (LOT) |
| 2:56 pm | 2.30 | 1 SSW Batavia | Kane | Trained spotter shared photos of multiple elongated hailstones measuring greater than 2 inches in diameter in Batavia. (LOT) |
| 2:56 pm | 1.00 | 1 W Batavia | Kane | Quarter size hail reported at Randall Road and Main Street in Batavia. (LOT) |
| 2:56 pm | 1.75 | 3 W Batavia | Kane | Golf ball size hail reported at Main Street and Nelson Lake Road in Batavia. (LOT) |
| 2:56 pm | 1.00 | 1 NW Batavia | Kane | mPING report. (LOT) |
| 2:56 pm | 2.50 | 1 W Batavia | Kane | mPING report. (LOT) |
| 2:57 pm | 2.50 | 1 SSW Batavia | Kane | Photo shared on social media of approximately 2 to 2.5 inch diameter hail in Batavia. A video shared under the same post showed wind-driven hail destroying a window scr (LOT) |
| 2:57 pm | 2.00 | 2 W Batavia | Kane | mPING report. (LOT) |
| 2:57 pm | 1.00 | Batavia | Kane | Quarter size hail reported at First Street and Lincoln Street in Batavia. (LOT) |
| 2:58 pm | 1.75 | 1 SSW Batavia | Kane | Corrects location of previous hail report from Batavia. COOP observer in Batavia reported wind-driven hail with the largest hailstones approximately golf ball sized. (LOT) |
| 2:58 pm | 1.75 | Batavia | Kane | COOP observer in Batavia reported wind-driven hail with the largest hailstones approximately golf ball sized. (LOT) |
| 2:58 pm | 2.00 | 1 WSW Batavia | Kane | Photo shared on social media showing hailstones roughly twice the size of a quarter along Main Street east of Randall Road in Batavia. (LOT) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
681 signatures from 10 radars fell inside the metro's counties on this local date, counting every cell the algorithm rated from a 10% to a 100% chance of hail; 35 were rated 100% and 29 had a maximum expected size of 2 inches or more.
| Radar | Signatures | Rated 100% | 1 in or more | 2 in or more | Largest expected | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KORD | 137 | 4 | 17 | 4 | 2.50 in | 2:21 pm | 5:39 pm |
| KMKX | 118 | 10 | 14 | 7 | 3.00 in | 2:30 pm | 5:35 pm |
| KMDW | 102 | 7 | 18 | 1 | 2.00 in | 2:26 pm | 5:41 pm |
| KIWX | 64 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 2.75 in | 2:51 pm | 5:37 pm |
| KLOT | 63 | 4 | 13 | 7 | 2.75 in | 2:27 pm | 5:33 pm |
| KMKE | 58 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1.00 in | 2:36 pm | 4:15 pm |
| KDVN | 51 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 2.50 in | 1:48 pm | 4:46 pm |
| KILX | 51 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 2.00 in | 2:29 pm | 5:32 pm |
| KGRR | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 3:35 pm | 4:37 pm |
| KIND | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 4:57 pm | 5:34 pm |
Each radar that scans a storm writes its own signature about every 4 to 6 minutes, so one storm produces many rows and overlapping radars count it more than once. The raw rows for this day are in NOAA's Severe Weather Data Inventory.
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