Hail in Broken Bow · May 23, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Broken Bow that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · May 23, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 13th most severe storm Broken Bow 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
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /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 Bow 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.
Estimated size field 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 May 23, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Broken Bow, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where May 23, 2026 sits in Broken Bow's hail record.
This was Broken Bow's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 25 days after the Apr 28, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 13th of the 14 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Broken Bow at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The May 23, 2026 convective day was bigger than Broken Bow: the same system put hail over 222 other tracked cities, 3 of them in Oklahoma. Nearest: Ashdown (50 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Ogden (62 miles southeast, up to 0.75"); Saratoga (62 miles southeast, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 14 Broken Bow 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.
For this storm over Broken Bow, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Broken Bow roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Broken Bow hail history
Other storms in Broken Bow.
Estimated-size surface Sep 12, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Sep 11, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 7, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jul 12, 2026
2"
Estimated-size surface Jul 6, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 11, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 7, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 2, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Apr 28, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Apr 24, 2026
2"
Estimated-size surface Mar 15, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Mar 9, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Mar 4, 2026
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