Hail in Belle Plaine · May 18, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 1.25" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Belle Plaine that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · May 18, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 5th most severe storm Belle Plaine 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
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 71 /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 Belle Plaine 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.
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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for May 18, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Belle Plaine, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where May 18, 2026 sits in Belle Plaine's hail record.
This was Belle Plaine's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 23 days after the Apr 25, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Belle Plaine at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The May 18, 2026 convective day was bigger than Belle Plaine: the same system put hail over 726 other tracked cities, 258 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Mulvane (7 miles north, up to 1"); Wellington (9 miles southwest, up to 1.75"); Peck (9 miles northwest, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 13 Belle Plaine 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 Belle Plaine. 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.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1.25" hail means for Belle Plaine 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.
Potential roof exposure
$40M
Potential roof exposure — 3,349 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 17 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$255K
Close just 0.5% of the 3,349 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
May 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around May 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 $703 on top of the $150 plan.
Belle Plaine hail history
Other storms in Belle Plaine.
Estimated-size surface Aug 6, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 11, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 9, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 4, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 18, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 13, 2026
0.5"
NEXRAD surface May 31, 2026
NEXRAD surface Apr 25, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Apr 17, 2026
2"
Estimated-size surface Apr 3, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Mar 5, 2026
1"
NEXRAD surface Mar 3, 2026
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