Hail size 1"
2 S Kansas City Jackson County
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Jackson
Hail in Kansas City · Apr 23, 2026
NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1"; the estimated-size surface reached 0" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1" ≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint 0
Ground reports 3 1 hail · 2 wind
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size
Convective day · Apr 23, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 12th most severe storm Kansas City has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 2.3 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
2.3 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 50 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Kansas City saw the hail — from two instruments
Apr 23, 2026 · Kansas City, MO
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
Radar signature field NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.
Max size
1"
Detections
0
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Max size
0"
The storm in context
Where Apr 23, 2026 sits in Kansas City's hail record.
This was Kansas City's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 6 days after the Apr 17, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 12th of the 17 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Kansas City at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 23, 2026 convective day was bigger than Kansas City: the same system put hail over 703 other tracked cities, 31 of them in Missouri. Nearest: Overland Park (9 miles southwest, up to 1"); Independence (13 miles northeast, up to 0"); Pleasant Hill (17 miles southeast, up to 0").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 17 Kansas City storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
Ground reports
What people on the ground reported
3 reports filed with the NWS
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 reportWind reports
2 reports Wind gust 61 mph
Kansas City Downtown Clay County
“Report from ASOS. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 61 mph
Kansas City Downtown Clay County
“Report from ASOS. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Reports came from Kansas City Downtown — beyond Kansas City itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Kansas City roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Kansas City hail history
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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Sep 7, 2026.