Hail size 1"
1 E Avondale Clay County
“Social media report. Time estimated from radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Kansas City Apr 15, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Kansas City this day.
Largest hailstone
0.5"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
13,785
Ground reports
2
2 hailThe 7th most severe storm Kansas City 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.
3.3 /10
- Hail size
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 83 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Kansas City 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.
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.
Max size
0.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 15, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Kansas City, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 15, 2026 sits in Kansas City's hail record
This was Kansas City's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 36 days after the Mar 10, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 7th of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Kansas City at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Kansas City: the same system put hail over 425 other tracked cities, 59 of them in Missouri. Nearest: Lees Summit (13 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Bucyrus (16 miles southwest, up to 0.75"); Pleasant Hill (23 miles southeast, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from Kansas City's Apr 15, 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.
Hail reports
2 reports Hail size 1"
1 SW Maywood Jackson County
“Video from social media shows estimated quarter sized hail. Time taken from social media and confirmed by radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Hail was reported over 24 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Avondale and Maywood — beyond Kansas City itself.
What 0.5" hail means for Kansas City 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
$165M
Potential roof exposure — 13,785 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
69 jobs
Illustrative work
~$1M
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 Kansas City on the live map
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Kansas City hail history
← All hail in Kansas City 13 recorded storm days in Kansas City, MO
Other storms in Kansas City
Jul 9, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 8, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 3, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 8, 2026
May 31, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1.25"
7
ground reports 
May 29, 2026
Apr 28, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 26, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1.25"
4
ground reports 
Apr 23, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
3
ground reports 
Apr 17, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
5
ground reports 
Mar 10, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
64
ground reports 
Mar 5, 2026
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.