Hail in Home Apr 23, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 29 hail signatures up to 2", and the radar-estimated size reached 1" aloft. At 2" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
2"
≈ tennis ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature484
0
none filedThe 2nd most severe storm Home 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
- 50 /100
- Homes exposed
- 54 /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 Home 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 23, 2026 sits in Home's hail record
This was Home's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Home at 2" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 23, 2026 convective day was bigger than Home: the same system put hail over 703 other tracked cities, 147 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Beattie (5 miles east, up to 1.75"); Marysville (6 miles southwest, up to 1.75"); Oketo (7 miles north, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills from Home's Apr 23, 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 Home, 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" hail means for Home 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.
$5.8M
Potential roof exposure — 484 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Home on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Home storm history — this Apr 23, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.
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6 recorded storm days in Home, KS
Other storms in Home
Jul 30, 2026
Jul 8, 2026
1.75"
Jun 13, 2026
1.75"
May 18, 2026
2.5"
May 17, 2026
1.75"