Storm report · Linn

Hail in Mound City Apr 27, 2026

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 7 hail signatures up to 2.25", and the radar-estimated size reached 1" aloft. At 2.25" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

Largest hailstone

2.25"

≈ tennis ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint

71

Ground reports

1

1 hail
Severity

The most severe storm Mound City 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.

4.6 /10
Hail size
56 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
37 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
17 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Mound City saw the hail — from two instruments

We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.

NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Mound City, KS on Apr 27, 2026

NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.

Max size 2.25" Detections 7
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Mound City, KS on Apr 27, 2026

Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.

Max size 1"
The storm in context

Where Apr 27, 2026 sits in Mound City's hail record

This was Mound City's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Apr 26, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Mound City at 2.25" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Apr 27, 2026 convective day was bigger than Mound City: the same system put hail over 1,188 other tracked cities, 15 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Centerville (9 miles northwest, up to 1.75"); Prescott (9 miles southeast, up to 1.5"); Lacygne (11 miles north, up to 2.25").

These maps are stills from Mound City's Apr 27, 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

1 report
Hail size 2"
8 SW La Cygne Linn County

“(EAX)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics

How the storm moved

Reports came from La Cygne — beyond Mound City itself.

Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Severe, roof-replacing hail

What 2.25" hail means for Mound City 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

$852K

Potential roof exposure — 71 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
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 Mound City on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Mound City storm history — this Apr 27, 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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Mound City hail history

9 recorded storm days in Mound City, KS

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Other storms in Mound City

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 2, 2026.