Hail in Elk City Apr 17, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 30 hail signatures up to 4", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.5" aloft. At 4" — softball or larger — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
4"
≈ softball or larger · the largest NEXRAD radar signature201
0
none filedThe most severe storm Elk City 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
- 100 /100
- Homes exposed
- 46 /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 Elk City saw the hail — from two instruments
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.
Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Where Apr 17, 2026 sits in Elk City's hail record
This was Elk City's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 14 days after the Apr 3, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Elk City at 4" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Elk City: the same system put hail over 1,016 other tracked cities, 144 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Longton (9 miles northwest, up to 3.25"); Independence (13 miles southeast, up to 4"); Neodesha (15 miles northeast, up to 4").
These maps are stills from Elk City'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.
For this storm over Elk City, 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 4" hail means for Elk City 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.
$2.4M
Potential roof exposure — 201 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Elk City on the live map
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10 recorded storm days in Elk City, KS
Other storms in Elk City
Jun 21, 2026
0.75"
Jun 16, 2026
0.5"
May 31, 2026
1.75"
May 18, 2026
0.5"
May 8, 2026
1"
Apr 26, 2026
2.75"
Apr 25, 2026
1.25"
Apr 3, 2026
2.5"
Apr 1, 2026