Tornado Rating unknown
5 NW Sycamore Wilson County
“report of brief tornado touchdown. (ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Neodesha Apr 26, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 25 hail signatures up to 4", and the radar-estimated size reached 2.5" aloft. At 4" — softball or larger — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm — see the ground reports below.
Largest hailstone
4"
≈ softball or larger · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
120
Ground reports
5
3 hail · 2 tornadoThe most severe storm Neodesha 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.
8.5 /10
- Hail size
- 100 /100
- Homes exposed
- 42 /100
- Ground truth
- 100 /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 Neodesha 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 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
4"
Detections
25
Radar-estimated hail size
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
2.5"
Where Apr 26, 2026 sits in Neodesha's hail record
This was Neodesha's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 9 days after the Apr 17, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Neodesha at 4" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Neodesha: the same system put hail over 710 other tracked cities, 277 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Altoona (7 miles north, up to 2.5"); Cherryvale (9 miles southeast, up to 2.5"); Thayer (13 miles northeast, up to 2.5").
These maps are stills from Neodesha's Apr 26, 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.
Tornado reports
2 reports Tornado Rating unknown
4 W Sycamore Montgomery County
“Delayed report of a tornado. Photo of a tornado west of Sycamore from social media. (ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail reports
3 reports Hail size 2.75"
5 W Parsons Tri City Ai Montgomery County
“Report from mPING: Baseball (2.75 in.). (ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.5"
Sycamore Montgomery County
“(ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.5"
Sycamore Montgomery County
“(ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
The storm tracked east at roughly 15 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.
Hail was reported over 44 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Parsons Tri City Ai and Sycamore — beyond Neodesha itself.
What 4" hail means for Neodesha 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
$1.4M
Potential roof exposure — 120 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
1 job
Illustrative work
~$15K
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.
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Neodesha hail history
← All hail in Neodesha 9 recorded storm days in Neodesha, KS
Other storms in Neodesha
Jul 10, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 25, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 11, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 8, 2026
May 31, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 27, 2026
2.25" Signatures 2.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 17, 2026
4" Signatures 4" Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 15, 2026
1.5" Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed
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 3, 2026.