Storm report · Carter

Hail in Ardmore Apr 15, 2026

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Ardmore this day. At 2.75" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

Largest hailstone

2.75"

≈ baseball · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

14,088

Ground reports

3

3 hail
Severity

The most severe storm Ardmore 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.

6.9 /10
Hail size
69 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
83 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
50 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Ardmore 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-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Ardmore, OK on Apr 15, 2026

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 2.75"

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

The storm in context

Where Apr 15, 2026 sits in Ardmore's hail record

This was Ardmore's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 40 days after the Mar 6, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Ardmore at 2.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Apr 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Ardmore: the same system put hail over 425 other tracked cities, 35 of them in Oklahoma. Nearest: Madill (13 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Marietta (15 miles south, up to 0.5"); Mill Creek (27 miles northeast, up to 2.75").

These maps are stills from Ardmore's Apr 15, 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.

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.

Hail reports

3 reports
Hail size 1"
Ardmore Carter County

“(OUN)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2"
Ardmore Carter County

“X Post with Picture. (OUN)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
2 NE Ardmore Carter County

“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (OUN)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics

How the storm moved

Hail was reported over 38 minutes, from to .

Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Severe, roof-replacing hail

What 2.75" hail means for Ardmore 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

$169M

Potential roof exposure — 14,088 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
70 jobs
Illustrative work
~$1.1M
Close just 0.5% of the 14,088 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.
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.

Track hail over Ardmore on the live map

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Ardmore hail history

10 recorded storm days in Ardmore, OK

← All hail in Ardmore

Other storms in Ardmore

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 2, 2026.