“At 4:20 PM CDT on Sunday April 26... 2026... an EF 1 tornado developed within a severe line of thunderstorms in northwest Miami County Kansas. This tornado began near t (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Edgerton Apr 26, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 7 hail signatures up to 1", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.75" aloft.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm — see the ground reports below.
1"
≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature180
2
1 wind · 1 tornadoThe 3rd most severe storm Edgerton has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 45 /100
- Ground truth
- 50 /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 Edgerton 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'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.
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.
Where Apr 26, 2026 sits in Edgerton's hail record
This was Edgerton's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 3 days after the Apr 23, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Edgerton at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Edgerton: the same system put hail over 710 other tracked cities, 277 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Gardner (7 miles north, up to 1.5"); Paola (7 miles south, up to 1"); Spring Hill (8 miles east, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Edgerton's Apr 26, 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.
Tornado reports
1 reportWind reports
1 report“Report via personal weather station. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
How the storm moved
Hail was reported over 20 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Hillsdale — beyond Edgerton itself.
What 1" hail means for Edgerton 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.
$2.2M
Potential roof exposure — 180 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Edgerton on the live map
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7 recorded storm days in Edgerton, KS
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