Storm report · Clark

Hail in Canton Apr 27, 2026

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 5 hail signatures up to 0.75", and the radar-estimated size reached 0" aloft.

Largest hailstone

0.75"

≈ penny to nickel · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint

104

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 6th most severe storm Canton 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.

2.1 /10
Hail size
19 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
40 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Canton 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
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Canton, MO on Apr 27, 2026

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 0.75" Detections 5
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Canton, MO on Apr 27, 2026

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"
The storm in context

Where Apr 27, 2026 sits in Canton's hail record

This was Canton's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 10 days after the Apr 17, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Canton at 0.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Apr 27, 2026 convective day was bigger than Canton: the same system put hail over 1,188 other tracked cities, 305 of them in Missouri. Nearest: Monticello (5 miles west, up to 0.75"); Warsaw (9 miles northeast, up to 0.75"); Williamstown (11 miles west, up to 1").

These maps are stills from Canton'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.

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.

The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Canton. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.

Near the severe threshold

What 0.75" hail means for Canton roofs

Hail this size sits right at the edge of the National Weather Service severe threshold. Newer roofs usually shrug it off, but aging or already-worn shingles can bruise, and soft metals — vents, flashing, gutters — often show the first dents.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$1.2M

Potential roof exposure — 104 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
1 job
Illustrative work
~$15K
Close just 0.5% of the 104 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.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around April 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over Canton on the live map

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Canton hail history

9 recorded storm days in Canton, MO

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Other storms in Canton

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 2, 2026.