Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 2.5", and the radar-estimated size reached 2" aloft. At 2.5" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm — see the ground reports below.
2.5"
≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature6,874
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2 hail · 1 tornadoOverview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
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.
Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
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.
This was Buffalo's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 25 days after the Apr 1, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Buffalo at 2.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Buffalo: the same system put hail over 710 other tracked cities, 278 of them in Missouri. Nearest: Elkland (9 miles southeast, up to 2.5"); Tunas (11 miles northeast, up to 1.75"); Pittsburg (13 miles northwest, up to 2.5").
These maps are stills from Buffalo's Apr 26, 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.
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.
“A tornado produced an intermittent damage path to the east northeast of Buffalo... MO... Reports of a funnel cloud near the ground were received from the Springfield St (SGF)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“(SGF)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“Delayed report from April 26th of hail to the size of half dollars. (SGF)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail was reported over 28 minutes, from to .
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.
$82M
Potential roof exposure — 6,874 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Buffalo storm history — this Apr 26, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.
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5 recorded storm days in Buffalo, MO
