Hail in Fort Recovery · Apr 14, 2026
Convective day · Apr 14, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 3rd most severe storm Fort Recovery 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
- 38 /100
- Homes exposed
- 75 /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 Fort Recovery 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.
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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 14, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Fort Recovery, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Apr 14, 2026 sits in Fort Recovery's hail record.
This was Fort Recovery's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 19 days after the Mar 26, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Fort Recovery at 1.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 14, 2026 convective day was bigger than Fort Recovery: the same system put hail over 476 other tracked cities, 16 of them in Ohio. Nearest: Saint Henry (11 miles east, up to 1"); Portland (13 miles northwest, up to 1.5"); Celina (13 miles northeast, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 5 Fort Recovery 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.
No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Fort Recovery. That is common: a report depends on someone being there to see it and take the time to call it in. The radar surfaces above are the record here — the storm was detected from above even though no one on the ground logged it.
High damage potential
What 1.5" hail means for Fort Recovery roofs.
Hail around an inch and a half is capable of cracking shingles, stripping granules, and denting gutters, vents, and siding. Risk is usually greatest near the strongest radar signal, but property-level damage still requires an on-site inspection.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$68M
Potential roof exposure — 5,705 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 29 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$435K
Close just 0.5% of the 5,705 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 $1,198 on top of the $150 plan.
Fort Recovery hail history
Other storms in Fort Recovery.
Estimated-size surface Aug 11, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 6, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Mar 26, 2026
3.25"
Estimated-size surface Mar 22, 2026
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