“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Kansas City · Mar 10, 2026
Convective day · Mar 10, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 3rd most severe storm Kansas City has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 84 /100
- Ground truth
- 100 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Kansas City 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.
Estimated size field 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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Mar 10, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Kansas City, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Mar 10, 2026 sits in Kansas City's hail record.
This was Kansas City's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Kansas City at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Mar 10, 2026 convective day was bigger than Kansas City: the same system put hail over 470 other tracked cities, 68 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Bonner Springs (6 miles southwest, up to 0.75"); Linwood (15 miles southwest, up to 0.75"); Olathe (17 miles south, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 9 Kansas City storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
Ground reports
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
7 reports“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“Social media report and photo. Time estimated from radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“Time confirmed from radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“Social media report and photos. Damage to several vehicles. Time estimated from radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
How the storm moved
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Hail was reported over 17 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Maywood, Bonner Springs, Beverly Hills, and Piper — beyond Kansas City itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1.25" hail means for Kansas City roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$184M
Potential roof exposure — 15,296 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 76 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$1.1M
Close just 0.5% of the 15,296 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.
Claim window
March 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around March 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $3,212 on top of the $150 plan.
Kansas City hail history
Other storms in Kansas City.
Estimated-size surface Sep 6, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Aug 18, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 5, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface May 31, 2026
1"
NEXRAD surface May 17, 2026
NEXRAD surface May 4, 2026
Estimated-size surface Apr 26, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Apr 23, 2026
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