Storm report · Kingman

Hail in Kingman May 18, 2026

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1", and the radar-estimated size reached 2" aloft. At 2" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

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Largest hailstone

≈ tennis ball · radar-estimated size aloft

Homes in the hail footprint

4,944

Ground reports

2 hail

Severity

The 2nd most severe storm Kingman 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.

5.3 /10

Hail size: 50 /100
Homes exposed: 74 /100
Ground truth: 33 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Kingman 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-signature map of the hail storm over Kingman, KS on May 18, 2026 — 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 1" Detections 0

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Kingman, KS on May 18, 2026 — 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"

The storm in context

Where May 18, 2026 sits in Kingman's hail record

This was Kingman's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 22 days after the Apr 26, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 16 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Kingman at 2" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The May 18, 2026 convective day was bigger than Kingman: the same system put hail over 726 other tracked cities, 258 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Spivey (7 miles south, up to 2"); Cunningham (8 miles west, up to 2"); Zenda (13 miles southwest, up to 2").

These maps are stills from Kingman's May 18, 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.

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

2 reports

Hail size 1"

3 S Kingman Kingman County

1:30 AM UTC

“Spotter driving through storm... lots of hail up to quarter size. (ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 1"

1 NW Kingman Kingman County

1:26 AM UTC

“lots of hail... up to quarter size hail. (ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Severe, roof-replacing hail

What 2" hail means for Kingman 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

$59M

Potential roof exposure — 4,944 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs

25 jobs

Illustrative work

~$375K

Close just 0.5% of the 4,944 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.

Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around May 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

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Kingman hail history

16 recorded storm days in Kingman, KS

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