Hail in Altus Apr 14, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Altus this day.
0.5"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft233
0
none filedThe 8th most severe storm Altus has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 47 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Altus saw the hail — from two instruments
Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.
Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 14, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Altus, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 14, 2026 sits in Altus's hail record
This was Altus's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 11 days after the Apr 3, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 8th of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Altus at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 14, 2026 convective day was bigger than Altus: the same system put hail over 476 other tracked cities, 31 of them in Oklahoma. Nearest: Olustee (16 miles northwest, up to 0.5"); Vernon (21 miles south, up to 2"); Frederick (22 miles southeast, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from Altus's Apr 14, 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Altus. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.
What 0.5" hail means for Altus roofs
Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.
$2.8M
Potential roof exposure — 233 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Altus on the live map
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10 recorded storm days in Altus, OK
Other storms in Altus
Jul 5, 2026
1"
Jul 4, 2026
1"
Jun 11, 2026
1"
Jun 5, 2026
1"
May 21, 2026
0.5"
May 14, 2026
Apr 17, 2026
1"
Apr 3, 2026
1.25"
Apr 1, 2026
0.75"