Hail size 1.75"
Ozan Hempstead County
“Report of golf ball size hail relayed to Hempstead County 911 call center from the town of Ozan... AR. (SHV)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Hope Apr 25, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 18 hail signatures up to 4", and the radar-estimated size reached 2.5" aloft. At 4" — softball or larger — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
4"
≈ softball or larger · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
234
Ground reports
4
4 hailThe most severe storm Hope 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.
8.2 /10
- Hail size
- 100 /100
- Homes exposed
- 47 /100
- Ground truth
- 67 /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 Hope saw the hail — from two instruments
Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.
NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.
Max size
4"
Detections
18
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.
Max size
2.5"
Where Apr 25, 2026 sits in Hope's hail record
This was Hope's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Apr 24, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Hope at 4" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 25, 2026 convective day was bigger than Hope: the same system put hail over 392 other tracked cities, 58 of them in Arkansas. Nearest: Fulton (9 miles west, up to 2.5"); Emmet (12 miles east, up to 1.75"); Washington (15 miles northwest, up to 4").
These maps are stills from Hope's Apr 25, 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
4 reports Hail size 1.5"
1 NNW Washington Hempstead County
“Walnut sized hail reported just north of Washington... Arkansas. (SHV)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.75"
Hope Hempstead County
“Reports from social media of baseball size hail in Hope... Arkansas. (SHV)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2"
Hope Hempstead County
“Social media report of approx. egg-sized hail in Hope. (SHV)”
— 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
The storm tracked southeast at roughly 10 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.
Hail was reported over 73 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Ozan and Washington — beyond Hope itself.
What 4" hail means for Hope roofs
Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$2.8M
Potential roof exposure — 234 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
1 job
Illustrative work
~$15K
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.
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Hope hail history
← All hail in Hope 9 recorded storm days in Hope, AR
Other storms in Hope
Jul 12, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 6, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 4, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 22, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 2, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 8, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
1
ground report 
Apr 24, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 15, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed
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.