Tornado Rating unknown
2 NW Hanover Stone County
“Radar confirmed and reported by multiple sources. (LZK)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Stone
Hail in Mountain View · Apr 27, 2026
NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1"; the estimated-size surface reached 1" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm. The ground reports below show where it was filed.
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Peak hail signal 1" ≈ quarter · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 3,055
Ground reports 2 2 tornado
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size
Convective day · Apr 27, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 2nd most severe storm Mountain View has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 4.2 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
4.2 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 70 /100
- Ground truth
- 67 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Mountain View saw the hail — from two instruments
Apr 27, 2026 · Mountain View, AR
Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.
NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
Radar signature field The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.
Max size
1"
Detections
0
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Max size
1"
The storm in context
Where Apr 27, 2026 sits in Mountain View's hail record.
This was Mountain View's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Mountain View at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 27, 2026 convective day was bigger than Mountain View: the same system put hail over 1,188 other tracked cities, 90 of them in Arkansas. Nearest: Melbourne (9 miles northeast, up to 1"); Pleasant Grove (13 miles southeast, up to 1"); Fox (13 miles southwest, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 8 Mountain View storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
Ground reports
What people on the ground reported
2 reports filed with the NWS
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.
Tornado reports
2 reports Tornado Rating unknown
2 NW Hanover Stone County
“Storm survey revealed an EF1 tornado developed south of Mt. View just east of AR State Hwy 9 along Benny Risner Road. The tornado continued generally east-southeast for (LZK)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Reports came from Hanover — beyond Mountain View itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Mountain View roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
3,055 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$37M
Potential roof exposure — 3,055 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 15 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$225K
Close just 0.5% of the 3,055 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.
Claim window
April 2028
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.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $642 on top of the $150 plan.
Mountain View hail history
Other storms in Mountain View.
8 recorded storm days in Mountain View, AR
Estimated-size surface Storm date Mountain View / AR
Aug 26, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
NEXRAD surface Storm date Mountain View / AR
Jul 31, 2026
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Mountain View / AR
Jul 11, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Mountain View / AR
Jul 6, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Mountain View / AR
Jun 13, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Mountain View / AR
Jun 1, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Mountain View / AR
Apr 28, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
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A storm day here is a convective day — it runs from noon to noon
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spawned it rather than split across two calendar dates. Ground
reports are public-domain observations from the NOAA Storm
Prediction Center. Radar tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Aug 27, 2026.