Wind gust 64 mph
2 WSW Scranton Osage County
“Personal weather station. (TOP)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Burlingame Apr 17, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 7 hail signatures up to 1", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.5" aloft.
Largest hailstone
1"
≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
1,075
Ground reports
1
1 windThe 4th most severe storm Burlingame 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.
3.3 /10
- Hail size
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 61 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Burlingame 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
1"
Detections
7
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
0.5"
Where Apr 17, 2026 sits in Burlingame's hail record
This was Burlingame's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 43 days after the Mar 5, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Burlingame at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Burlingame: the same system put hail over 1,016 other tracked cities, 144 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Osage City (7 miles south, up to 1.75"); Reading (9 miles southwest, up to 1.75"); Carbondale (11 miles east, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills from Burlingame's Apr 17, 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.
Wind reports
1 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
Reports came from Scranton — beyond Burlingame itself.
What 1" hail means for Burlingame roofs
Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$13M
Potential roof exposure — 1,075 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
5 jobs
Illustrative work
~$75K
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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Burlingame hail history
← All hail in Burlingame 10 recorded storm days in Burlingame, KS
Other storms in Burlingame
Jul 23, 2026
Jul 9, 2026
Jul 4, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 13, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 8, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 18, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 26, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 23, 2026
Mar 5, 2026
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.