Hail size 2"
5 S Osage City Osage County
“(TOP)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Osage City Apr 13, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 32 hail signatures up to 3", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.75" aloft. At 3" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
3"
≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
230
Ground reports
2
2 hailThe most severe storm Osage 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.
6.2 /10
- Hail size
- 75 /100
- Homes exposed
- 47 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Osage City saw the hail — from two instruments
Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.
NEXRAD radar signatures
The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.
Max size
3"
Detections
32
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Max size
1.75"
Where Apr 13, 2026 sits in Osage City's hail record
This was Osage City's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 12 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Osage City at 3" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 13, 2026 convective day was bigger than Osage City: the same system put hail over 467 other tracked cities, 32 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Reading (8 miles west, up to 3"); Scranton (8 miles east, up to 1.75"); Lyndon (11 miles southeast, up to 2.5").
These maps are stills from Osage City's Apr 13, 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.
Hail reports
2 reports Hail size 2"
5 S Osage City Osage County
“(TOP)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
What 3" hail means for Osage 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
$2.8M
Potential roof exposure — 230 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.
Track hail over Osage City on the live map
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Osage City hail history
← All hail in Osage City 12 recorded storm days in Osage City, KS
Other storms in Osage City
Jul 23, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 9, 2026
Jul 4, 2026
2" Signatures 2" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 13, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
1
ground report 
Jun 8, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 31, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 30, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 18, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 26, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
1
ground report 
Apr 23, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 17, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
1
ground report
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.