Storm report · Stephens

Hail in Comanche May 8, 2026

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 4", and the radar-estimated size reached 2.75" aloft. At 4" — softball or larger — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

Largest hailstone

4"

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

4,918

Ground reports

2

2 hail
Severity

The most severe storm Comanche 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.

8.3 /10
Hail size
100 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
74 /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 Comanche 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.

NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Comanche, OK on May 8, 2026

NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.

Max size 4" Detections 0
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Comanche, OK on May 8, 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"
The storm in context

Where May 8, 2026 sits in Comanche's hail record

This was Comanche's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 13 days after the Apr 25, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Comanche at 4" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The May 8, 2026 convective day was bigger than Comanche: the same system put hail over 378 other tracked cities, 115 of them in Oklahoma. Nearest: Duncan (13 miles northeast, up to 4"); Loco (17 miles east, up to 2.5"); Waurika (21 miles southwest, up to 4").

These maps are stills from Comanche's May 8, 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

2 reports
Hail size 1"
2 SW Comanche Stephens County

“(OUN)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
2 SW Comanche Stephens County

“(OUN)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report
Severe, roof-replacing hail

What 4" hail means for Comanche 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

$59M

Potential roof exposure — 4,918 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
25 jobs
Illustrative work
~$375K
Close just 0.5% of the 4,918 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 May 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

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Comanche hail history

10 recorded storm days in Comanche, OK

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Other storms in Comanche

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.