Hail in Pretty Prairie Apr 11, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 71 hail signatures up to 2.5", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.25" aloft. At 2.5" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
2.5"
≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature416
0
none filedThe 2nd most severe storm Pretty Prairie 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
- 63 /100
- Homes exposed
- 52 /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 Pretty Prairie 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.
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.
Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.
Where Apr 11, 2026 sits in Pretty Prairie's hail record
This was Pretty Prairie's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 16 days after the Mar 26, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Pretty Prairie at 2.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 11, 2026 convective day was bigger than Pretty Prairie: the same system put hail over 134 other tracked cities, 37 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Arlington (11 miles west, up to 2.5"); Haven (13 miles northeast, up to 3.5"); Hutchinson (14 miles north, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills from Pretty Prairie's Apr 11, 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 Pretty Prairie 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 2.5" hail means for Pretty Prairie 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.
$5M
Potential roof exposure — 416 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Pretty Prairie on the live map
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11 recorded storm days in Pretty Prairie, KS
Other storms in Pretty Prairie
Jul 10, 2026
1"
Jul 4, 2026
0.5"
Jun 25, 2026
1"
Jun 20, 2026
0.75"
Jun 4, 2026
0.75"
May 30, 2026
2.5"
May 18, 2026
1.75"
Apr 26, 2026
1"
Mar 26, 2026
Mar 5, 2026
1.75"