Hail in Bolivar Apr 27, 2026
NEXRAD caught this storm: 12 hail signatures up to 3.25". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day. At 3.25" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
3.25"
≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature985
0
none filedThe most severe storm Bolivar 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
- 81 /100
- Homes exposed
- 60 /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 Bolivar 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.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Apr 27, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 27, 2026 sits in Bolivar's hail record
This was Bolivar's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Apr 26, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Bolivar at 3.25" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 27, 2026 convective day was bigger than Bolivar: the same system put hail over 1,188 other tracked cities, 305 of them in Missouri. Nearest: Willard (14 miles south, up to 1"); Everton (19 miles southwest, up to 1"); Ash Grove (22 miles south, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills from Bolivar's Apr 27, 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.
For this storm over Bolivar, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
What 3.25" hail means for Bolivar 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.
$12M
Potential roof exposure — 985 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Bolivar on the live map
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8 recorded storm days in Bolivar, MO
Other storms in Bolivar
Jul 10, 2026
1"
Jul 8, 2026
1"
Jun 25, 2026
1"
Jun 17, 2026
0.5"
May 18, 2026
1.5"
Apr 28, 2026
1"
Apr 26, 2026
2.5"