Hail in Milton Apr 17, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 9 hail signatures up to 2.25", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.5" aloft. At 2.25" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
2.25"
≈ tennis ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature73
0
none filedThe 2nd most severe storm Milton 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
- 56 /100
- Homes exposed
- 37 /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 Milton saw the hail — from two instruments
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Where Apr 17, 2026 sits in Milton's hail record
This was Milton's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Milton at 2.25" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Milton: the same system put hail over 1,016 other tracked cities, 144 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Conway Springs (12 miles east, up to 2.25"); Danville (12 miles southwest, up to 2.75"); Argonia (17 miles south, up to 2.75").
These maps are stills from Milton's Apr 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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Milton for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
What 2.25" hail means for Milton 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.
$876K
Potential roof exposure — 73 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Milton on the live map
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5 recorded storm days in Milton, KS
