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Hail in Doniphan Apr 16, 2026

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1.75", and the radar-estimated size reached 2.5" aloft. At 2.5" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

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Largest hailstone

2.5"

≈ baseball · radar-estimated size aloft

Homes in the hail footprint

4,688

Ground reports

1 hail

Severity

The 3rd most severe storm Doniphan 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.

5.8 /10

Hail size: 63 /100
Homes exposed: 73 /100
Ground truth: 17 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Doniphan 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-signature map of the hail storm over Doniphan, MO on Apr 16, 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 1.75" Detections 0

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Doniphan, MO on Apr 16, 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 2.5"

The storm in context

Where Apr 16, 2026 sits in Doniphan's hail record

This was Doniphan's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 32 days after the Mar 15, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 16 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Doniphan at 2.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Apr 16, 2026 convective day was bigger than Doniphan: the same system put hail over 151 other tracked cities, 67 of them in Missouri. Nearest: Couch (13 miles southwest, up to 2.25"); Gatewood (14 miles south, up to 2.5"); Myrtle (18 miles southwest, up to 2.5").

These maps are stills from Doniphan's Apr 16, 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.

Hail reports

1 report

Hail size 1.5"

Poynor Ripley County

8:20 PM UTC

“Late report. Estimated Ping Pong ball sized hail in community of Poynor. (PAH)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Storm forensics

How the storm moved

Reports came from Poynor — beyond Doniphan itself.

Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.

Severe, roof-replacing hail

What 2.5" hail means for Doniphan 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.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$56M

Potential roof exposure — 4,688 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs

23 jobs

Illustrative work

~$345K

Close just 0.5% of the 4,688 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.

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Doniphan hail history

16 recorded storm days in Doniphan, MO

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