Wind gust 59 mph
3 SSW Butler Bates County
“MODOT sensor at Butler Regional Airport. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Butler Jul 4, 2026
Hit 30 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.5" aloft.
Largest hailstone
0.5"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
29
Ground reports
1
1 windThe 9th most severe storm Butler has seen in the last 12 months
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
1.7 /10
- Hail size
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 30 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Butler saw the hail — from two instruments
Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.
NEXRAD radar signatures
The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.
Max size
0"
Detections
0
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Max size
0.5"
Where Jul 4, 2026 sits in Butler's hail record
This was Butler's 14th recorded hail day, arriving 17 days after the Jun 17, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 9th of the 14 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Butler at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 4, 2026 convective day was bigger than Butler: the same system put hail over 2,035 other tracked cities, 137 of them in Missouri. Nearest: Rich Hill (11 miles south, up to 2"); Amoret (13 miles northwest, up to 1.5"); Rockville (15 miles southeast, up to 2.5").
These maps are stills from Butler's Jul 4, 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.
Wind reports
1 reportWhat 0.5" hail means for Butler roofs
Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$348K
Potential roof exposure — 29 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage. Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Butler on the live map
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Butler hail history
← All hail in Butler 14 recorded storm days in Butler, MO
Other storms in Butler
Jun 17, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 11, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 8, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 31, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 8, 2026
2.25" Signatures 2.25" Estimated 1"
4
ground reports 
May 4, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 27, 2026
2.25" Signatures 2.25" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 26, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 17, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 15, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 13, 2026
1" Signatures 0.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 12, 2026
Mar 26, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed
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 surfaces are detections and estimates,
not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.