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Hail in Ardmore May 19, 2026

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Ardmore this day.

Largest hailstone

0.5"

≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

58

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 10th 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.

1.6 /10
Hail size
13 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
35 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /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 May 19, 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 0.5"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for May 19, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Ardmore, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where May 19, 2026 sits in Ardmore's hail record

This was Ardmore's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 9 days after the May 10, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 10th of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Ardmore at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The May 19, 2026 convective day was bigger than Ardmore: the same system put hail over 263 other tracked cities, 19 of them in Oklahoma. Nearest: Marietta (15 miles south, up to 0.75"); Tishomingo (29 miles east, up to 0.75"); Gainesville (31 miles south, up to 0.75").

These maps are stills from Ardmore's May 19, 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.

No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Ardmore. 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.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Ardmore 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.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$696K

Potential roof exposure — 58 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around May 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.