Hail size 1"
Fort Scott Bourbon County
“Social media picture of quarter size hail in Fort Scott... Kansas. (SGF)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Fort Scott Apr 26, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 46 hail signatures up to 3", and the radar-estimated size reached 2" aloft. At 3" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
3"
≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
1,044
Ground reports
1
1 hailThe most severe storm Fort Scott 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.
6.3 /10
- Hail size
- 75 /100
- Homes exposed
- 60 /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 Fort Scott 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
3"
Detections
46
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
2"
Where Apr 26, 2026 sits in Fort Scott's hail record
This was Fort Scott's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 9 days after the Apr 17, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 14 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Fort Scott at 3" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Fort Scott: the same system put hail over 710 other tracked cities, 277 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Hepler (5 miles west, up to 1.25"); Redfield (14 miles north, up to 2.75"); Bronson (16 miles northwest, up to 2.75").
These maps are stills from Fort Scott'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.
Hail reports
1 reportWhat 3" hail means for Fort Scott 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.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$13M
Potential roof exposure — 1,044 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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Fort Scott hail history
← All hail in Fort Scott 14 recorded storm days in Fort Scott, KS
Other storms in Fort Scott
Jul 10, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 4, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 8, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed 
May 31, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed 
May 30, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 29, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
May 18, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 17, 2026
May 8, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 17, 2026
2.75" Signatures 2.75" Estimated 1"
1
ground report 
Apr 15, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 6, 2026
Mar 4, 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.