Hail in Oxford · Apr 27, 2026
Convective day · Apr 27, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 5th most severe storm Oxford has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 0 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Oxford saw the hail — from two instruments
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.
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.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Apr 27, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Apr 27, 2026 sits in Oxford's hail record.
This was Oxford's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 68 days after the Feb 18, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Oxford at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 27, 2026 convective day was bigger than Oxford: the same system put hail over 1,188 other tracked cities, 125 of them in Indiana. Nearest: Attica (7 miles south, up to 1.75"); Williamsport (13 miles southwest, up to 1"); Wingate (21 miles south, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 5 Oxford 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
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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Oxford. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.
Below the severe threshold
What 0" hail means for Oxford roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Oxford hail history
Other storms in Oxford.
Estimated-size surface Aug 9, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 16, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 6, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Feb 18, 2026
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