Hail size 1.5"
1 SW Bridgeton St. Louis County
“Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). (LSX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Saint Louis Apr 27, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 63 hail signatures up to 2", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.5" aloft. At 2" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
2"
≈ tennis ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
88,796
Ground reports
4
3 hail · 1 windThe 2nd most severe storm Saint Louis 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.
6.5 /10
- Hail size
- 50 /100
- Homes exposed
- 99 /100
- Ground truth
- 67 /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 Saint Louis 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.
NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.
Max size
2"
Detections
63
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
1.5"
Where Apr 27, 2026 sits in Saint Louis's hail record
This was Saint Louis's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Apr 26, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 14 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Saint Louis at 2" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 27, 2026 convective day was bigger than Saint Louis: the same system put hail over 1,188 other tracked cities, 305 of them in Missouri. Nearest: Fenton (5 miles west, up to 1.25"); Imperial (7 miles south, up to 1.75"); Ballwin (9 miles northwest, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills from Saint Louis's Apr 27, 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
3 reports Hail size 1"
2 WNW Town And Country St. Louis County
“(LSX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
1 S Saint John St. Louis County
“At Midland and I-170. (LSX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind reports
1 report Wind gust 60 mph
Saint Ann St. Louis County
“power outage as the wind gust moved in. (LSX)”
— 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 337 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Bridgeton, Town And Country, Saint John, and Saint Ann — beyond Saint Louis itself.
What 2" hail means for Saint Louis roofs
Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$1.1B
Potential roof exposure — 88,796 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
444 jobs
Illustrative work
~$6.7M
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.
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Saint Louis hail history
← All hail in Saint Louis 14 recorded storm days in Saint Louis, MO
Other storms in Saint Louis
Jul 27, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 19, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 10, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 8, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 4, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 3, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 11, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 31, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 18, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 16, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed 
May 4, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 26, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
11
ground reports 
Mar 15, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed
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.