Hail in Wetmore · Apr 26, 2026
Convective day · Apr 26, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 10th most severe storm Wetmore 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 Wetmore 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.
Radar signature field 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.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Apr 26, 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 26, 2026 sits in Wetmore's hail record.
This was Wetmore's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 15 days after the Apr 11, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 10th of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Wetmore at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Wetmore: the same system put hail over 710 other tracked cities, 277 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Goff (5 miles west, up to 1"); Circleville (7 miles south, up to 0"); Powhattan (9 miles northeast, up to 0").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 10 Wetmore 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 Wetmore. 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.
Below the severe threshold
What 0" hail means for Wetmore 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
Wetmore hail history
Other storms in Wetmore.
Estimated-size surface Jul 3, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jun 13, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 4, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface May 30, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface May 18, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface May 17, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Apr 11, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Apr 9, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 31, 2026
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