Hail in Pilot Grove · Apr 26, 2026
Convective day · Apr 26, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 4th most severe storm Pilot Grove has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 0 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Pilot Grove saw the hail — from two instruments
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
Radar signature field Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Apr 26, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Apr 26, 2026 sits in Pilot Grove's hail record.
This was Pilot Grove's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 26 days after the Mar 31, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Pilot Grove at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Pilot Grove: the same system put hail over 710 other tracked cities, 278 of them in Missouri. Nearest: Sedalia (13 miles southwest, up to 1"); Marshall (16 miles northwest, up to 0.5"); Boonville (16 miles east, up to 0").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 5 Pilot Grove 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
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.
For this storm over Pilot Grove, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
Below the severe threshold
What 0" hail means for Pilot Grove roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Pilot Grove hail history
Other storms in Pilot Grove.
Estimated-size surface Aug 18, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 17, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Apr 27, 2026
1.75"
NEXRAD surface Mar 31, 2026
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