Storm report · Osage

Hail in Burbank Apr 17, 2026

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 4", and the radar-estimated size reached 2.25" aloft. At 4" — softball or larger — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm — see the ground reports below.

Largest hailstone

4"

≈ softball or larger · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint

1,807

Ground reports

1

1 tornado
Severity

The most severe storm Burbank 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.

8.1 /10
Hail size
100 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
65 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
33 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Burbank saw the hail — from two instruments

The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.

NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Burbank, OK on Apr 17, 2026

Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.

Max size 4" Detections 0
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burbank, OK on Apr 17, 2026

The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.

Max size 2.25"
The storm in context

Where Apr 17, 2026 sits in Burbank's hail record

This was Burbank's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the Apr 15, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Burbank at 4" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Apr 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Burbank: the same system put hail over 1,016 other tracked cities, 109 of them in Oklahoma. Nearest: Shidler (9 miles northeast, up to 4"); Kaw City (9 miles northwest, up to 4"); Fairfax (13 miles southeast, up to 1").

These maps are stills from Burbank's Apr 17, 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.

Tornado reports

1 report
Tornado Rating unknown
9 WSW Apperson Osage County

“A tornado uprooted numerous trees... damaged several homes... and snapped numerous large tree limbs in neighborhoods south of the dam. This damage was consistent with E (TSA)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics

How the storm moved

Reports came from Apperson — beyond Burbank itself.

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

What 4" hail means for Burbank 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

$22M

Potential roof exposure — 1,807 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
9 jobs
Illustrative work
~$135K
Close just 0.5% of the 1,807 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.

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Burbank hail history

7 recorded storm days in Burbank, OK

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Other storms in Burbank

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 3, 2026.