Hail in Fort Scott May 17, 2026
NEXRAD caught this storm: 0 hail signatures up to 0". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
0"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft0
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none filedThe 12th most severe storm Fort Scott 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
- 0 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /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 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'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 17, 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 17, 2026 sits in Fort Scott's hail record
This was Fort Scott's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 9 days after the May 8, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 12th of the 14 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Fort Scott at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The May 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Fort Scott: the same system put hail over 894 other tracked cities, 134 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Moran (22 miles northwest, up to 0"); Eskridge (100 miles northwest, up to 0"); Kansas City (100 miles north, up to 0").
These maps are stills from Fort Scott's May 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Fort Scott. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.
What 0" hail means for Fort Scott roofs
Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.
Track hail over Fort Scott on the live map
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14 recorded storm days in Fort Scott, KS
Other storms in Fort Scott
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Jul 4, 2026
1.75"
Jun 8, 2026
1"
May 31, 2026
1"
May 30, 2026
1.25"
May 29, 2026
2.5"
May 18, 2026
0.75"
May 8, 2026
1.25"
Apr 26, 2026
3"
Apr 17, 2026
2.75"
Apr 15, 2026
0.5"
Mar 6, 2026
Mar 4, 2026