Hail in Mound City · May 15, 2026
Convective day · May 15, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 9th most severe storm Mound 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
- 0 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Mound City 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.
Radar signature field 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.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for May 15, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where May 15, 2026 sits in Mound City's hail record.
This was Mound City's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 18 days after the Apr 27, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 9th of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Mound City at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The May 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Mound City: the same system put hail over 444 other tracked cities, 1 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Lees Summit (59 miles north, up to 0.5"); Knob Noster (85 miles northeast, up to 0"); Higginsville (91 miles northeast, up to 0").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 10 Mound 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.
For this storm over Mound City, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
Below the severe threshold
What 0" hail means for Mound City roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Mound City hail history
Other storms in Mound City.
Estimated-size surface Sep 9, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 17, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 12, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface May 30, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Apr 27, 2026
2.25"
Estimated-size surface Apr 26, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Apr 15, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Apr 13, 2026
1"
NEXRAD surface Mar 26, 2026
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