Hail in Sullivan · Apr 26, 2026
Convective day · Apr 26, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 11th most severe storm Sullivan 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 Sullivan 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.
Radar signature field 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.
Estimated size field 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.
The storm in context
Where Apr 26, 2026 sits in Sullivan's hail record.
This was Sullivan's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 9 days after the Apr 17, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 11th of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Sullivan at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Sullivan: the same system put hail over 710 other tracked cities, 278 of them in Missouri. Nearest: Bourbon (7 miles south, up to 1"); Cuba (18 miles southwest, up to 1.75"); Saint Clair (19 miles east, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 11 Sullivan 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 Sullivan, 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 Sullivan 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
Sullivan hail history
Other storms in Sullivan.
Estimated-size surface Sep 16, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 12, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 9, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 5, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 4, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface May 31, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface May 18, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Apr 27, 2026
3.25"
Estimated-size surface Apr 17, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Apr 15, 2026
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