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Hail in Pleasant Hill · Apr 15, 2026

The estimated-size surface reached 0.75" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Pleasant Hill that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 0.75" ≈ penny to nickel · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 666
Ground reports 2 2 hail
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only

Convective day · Apr 15, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 2nd most severe storm Pleasant Hill has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 3.0 / 10
Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

3.0 /10
Peak hail signal
19 /100

Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.

Homes exposed
56 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
33 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Pleasant Hill saw the hail — from two instruments

Apr 15, 2026 · Pleasant Hill, MO

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-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Pleasant Hill, MO on Apr 15, 2026 Estimated size field

The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.

Max size 0.75"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 15, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Pleasant Hill, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Apr 15, 2026 sits in Pleasant Hill's hail record.

This was Pleasant Hill's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 36 days after the Mar 10, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Pleasant Hill at 0.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Apr 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Pleasant Hill: the same system put hail over 425 other tracked cities, 59 of them in Missouri. Nearest: Harrisonville (9 miles southwest, up to 0.75"); Lees Summit (9 miles northwest, up to 0.5"); Kansas City (17 miles northwest, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 9 Pleasant Hill 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

2 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

2 reports
Hail size 1"
Strasburg Cass County

“Social media report of quarter size hail in the Strasburg area. Time estimated from radar. (EAX)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.25"
1 N East Lynne Cass County

“Social media report. Time estimated from radar. (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 Strasburg and East Lynne — beyond Pleasant Hill itself.

Near the severe threshold

What 0.75" hail means for Pleasant Hill roofs.

A signal this size sits near the National Weather Service severe threshold. Aging shingles and soft metals such as vents, flashing, and gutters may be more vulnerable; roof age, wind, and material condition all matter, and only an inspection can confirm damage.

Radar reading · not confirmed damage

Roofing exposure

What this storm is worth to a roofer.

666 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$8M

Potential roof exposure — 666 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs
3 jobs
Illustrative work
~$45K

Close just 0.5% of the 666 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.

Claim window

April 2028

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.

Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $140 on top of the $150 plan.

Pleasant Hill hail history

9 recorded storm days in Pleasant Hill, MO

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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 16, 2026.