Hail size 1.25"
3 E Lawson Ray County
“Taken from social media. Time estimated by radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Lawson Apr 15, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Lawson this day.
Largest hailstone
0.75"
≈ penny to nickel · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
3,580
Ground reports
2
2 hailThe 4th most severe storm Lawson 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.
3.4 /10
- Hail size
- 19 /100
- Homes exposed
- 71 /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 Lawson 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.
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
0.75"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 15, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Lawson, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 15, 2026 sits in Lawson's hail record
This was Lawson's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 36 days after the Mar 10, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Lawson at 0.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Lawson: the same system put hail over 425 other tracked cities, 59 of them in Missouri. Nearest: Lathrop (9 miles northwest, up to 0.5"); Polo (11 miles north, up to 0.5"); Kingston (13 miles northeast, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills from Lawson'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 1.75"
1 E Excelsior Estates Ray County
“Social media report. Time estimated from 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
Reports came from Excelsior Estates — beyond Lawson itself.
What 0.75" hail means for Lawson 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
$43M
Potential roof exposure — 3,580 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
18 jobs
Illustrative work
~$270K
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 Lawson on the live map
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Lawson hail history
← All hail in Lawson 6 recorded storm days in Lawson, MO
Other storms in Lawson
Jul 3, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 29, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 26, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 17, 2026
2.25" Signatures 2.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 10, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
1
ground report
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.