Hail in Broken Arrow · Apr 23, 2026
Convective day · Apr 23, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 3rd most severe storm Broken Arrow 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
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 88 /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 Broken Arrow saw the hail — from two instruments
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
Radar signature field NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.
Estimated size field Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
The storm in context
Where Apr 23, 2026 sits in Broken Arrow's hail record.
This was Broken Arrow's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 44 days after the Mar 10, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Broken Arrow at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 23, 2026 convective day was bigger than Broken Arrow: the same system put hail over 703 other tracked cities, 91 of them in Oklahoma. Nearest: Tulsa (11 miles northwest, up to 1"); Sapulpa (18 miles west, up to 1"); Collinsville (21 miles north, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 11 Broken Arrow 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Broken Arrow. 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.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Broken Arrow roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$300M
Potential roof exposure — 25,014 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 125 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$1.9M
Close just 0.5% of the 25,014 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 $5,253 on top of the $150 plan.
Broken Arrow hail history
Other storms in Broken Arrow.
Sep 12, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 7, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 11, 2026
2.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 4, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 25, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 24, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 2, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 1, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Mar 10, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 6, 2026
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