Hail in Ramona · Apr 9, 2026
Convective day · Apr 9, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 9th most severe storm Ramona 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
- 25 /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 Ramona saw the hail — from two instruments
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
Radar signature field Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Apr 9, 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 Apr 9, 2026 sits in Ramona's hail record.
This was Ramona's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 34 days after the Mar 6, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 9th of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Ramona at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 9, 2026 convective day was bigger than Ramona: the same system put hail over 161 other tracked cities, 97 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Hope (7 miles north, up to 1"); Lincolnville (9 miles southeast, up to 0"); Gypsum (18 miles northwest, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 10 Ramona 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.
No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Ramona. That is common: a report depends on someone being there to see it and take the time to call it in. The radar surfaces above are the record here — the storm was detected from above even though no one on the ground logged it.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Ramona roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Ramona hail history
Other storms in Ramona.
Estimated-size surface Aug 7, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 13, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 10, 2026
2"
Estimated-size surface Jun 8, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 4, 2026
1"
NEXRAD surface May 4, 2026
Estimated-size surface Apr 26, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Apr 23, 2026
3.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 6, 2026
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