Hail size 1"
1 SW Cherryvale Montgomery County
“Location estimated. (ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Independence Apr 15, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.25" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Independence this day.
Largest hailstone
1.25"
≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
1,829
Ground reports
2
1 hail · 1 windThe 4th most severe storm Independence 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.
4.0 /10
- Hail size
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 65 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Independence saw the hail — from two instruments
Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Max size
1.25"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 15, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Independence, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 15, 2026 sits in Independence's hail record
This was Independence's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 12 days after the Apr 3, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Independence at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Independence: the same system put hail over 425 other tracked cities, 34 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Liberty (9 miles southeast, up to 1"); Cherryvale (11 miles northeast, up to 1.75"); Coffeyville (12 miles southeast, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills from Independence's Apr 15, 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 reportWind reports
1 report Wind gust 60 mph
1 SW Cherryvale Montgomery County
“Location estimated. (ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Reports came from Cherryvale — beyond Independence itself.
What 1.25" hail means for Independence roofs
Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$22M
Potential roof exposure — 1,829 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
9 jobs
Illustrative work
~$135K
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.
Track hail over Independence on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Independence storm history — this Apr 15, 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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Independence hail history
← All hail in Independence 13 recorded storm days in Independence, KS
Other storms in Independence
Jul 4, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 21, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 16, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 11, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
May 31, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
May 29, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 4, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 28, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 26, 2026
2.75" Signatures 2.75" Estimated 2.25"
3
ground reports 
Apr 17, 2026
4" Signatures 4" Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 3, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 6, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed
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.