Hail size 1.25"
1 NE Stillwell Johnson County
“Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). Time confirmed from radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Cass
Hail in Belton · Aug 5, 2026
Hit 38 days ago
NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0"; the estimated-size surface reached 1" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1" ≈ quarter · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 21,749
Ground reports 2 1 hail · 1 wind
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size
Convective day · Aug 5, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 2nd most severe storm Belton has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 4.2 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
4.2 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 87 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Belton saw the hail — from two instruments
Aug 5, 2026 · Belton, MO
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.
NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
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.
Max size
0"
Detections
0
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Max size
1"
The storm in context
Where Aug 5, 2026 sits in Belton's hail record.
This was Belton's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 101 days after the Apr 26, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Belton at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 5, 2026 convective day was bigger than Belton: the same system put hail over 243 other tracked cities, 46 of them in Missouri. Nearest: Grandview (9 miles northeast, up to 1"); Bucyrus (9 miles southwest, up to 1"); Kansas City (11 miles north, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 4 Belton 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
2 reports filed with the NWS
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
1 reportWind reports
1 report Wind gust 59 mph
1 NE Belton Cass County
“59 MPH wind gust measured from personal weather station. Time confirmed from radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Reports came from Stillwell — beyond Belton itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Belton 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
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
21,749 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$261M
Potential roof exposure — 21,749 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 109 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$1.6M
Close just 0.5% of the 21,749 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.
Claim window
August 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around August 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $4,567 on top of the $150 plan.
Belton hail history
Other storms in Belton.
4 recorded storm days in Belton, MO
Estimated-size surface Storm date Belton / MO
Aug 21, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Belton / MO
Apr 26, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
NEXRAD surface Storm date Belton / MO
Mar 5, 2026
No ground reports filed Open report →
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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Aug 22, 2026.