Hail in El Dorado May 31, 2026
NEXRAD caught this storm: 15 hail signatures up to 2.25". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day. At 2.25" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
2.25"
≈ tennis ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature2,537
0
none filedThe 2nd most severe storm El Dorado 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
- 56 /100
- Homes exposed
- 68 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 El Dorado 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.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for May 31, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where May 31, 2026 sits in El Dorado's hail record
This was El Dorado's 10th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the May 30, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over El Dorado at 2.25" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The May 31, 2026 convective day was bigger than El Dorado: the same system put hail over 637 other tracked cities, 89 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Eureka (25 miles east, up to 1.75"); Severy (36 miles southeast, up to 1.75"); Belle Plaine (37 miles southwest, up to 0").
These maps are stills from El Dorado's May 31, 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.
For this storm over El Dorado, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
What 2.25" hail means for El Dorado roofs
Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.
$30M
Potential roof exposure — 2,537 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over El Dorado on the live map
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13 recorded storm days in El Dorado, KS
Other storms in El Dorado
Jul 10, 2026
0.5"
Jun 21, 2026
0.5"
Jun 17, 2026
0.75"
May 30, 2026
2.5"
May 22, 2026
0.75"
May 18, 2026
0.75"
Apr 26, 2026
1.75"
Apr 23, 2026
1.75"
Apr 17, 2026
1.75"
Apr 3, 2026
1.25"
Mar 10, 2026
0.5"
Mar 5, 2026