Hail in Duke · Apr 14, 2026
Convective day · Apr 14, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 11th most severe storm Duke 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
- 25 /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 Duke 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 Apr 14, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Duke, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Apr 14, 2026 sits in Duke's hail record.
This was Duke's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 13 days after the Apr 1, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 11th of the 12 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Duke at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 14, 2026 convective day was bigger than Duke: the same system put hail over 476 other tracked cities, 31 of them in Oklahoma. Nearest: Gould (9 miles west, up to 0.75"); Olustee (9 miles east, up to 0.5"); Altus (23 miles east, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 12 Duke 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 Duke. 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.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Duke 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
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$204K
Potential roof exposure — 17 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
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 $4 on top of the $150 plan.
Estimated-size surface Jul 31, 2026
2"
Estimated-size surface Jul 4, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 25, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 23, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jun 22, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 18, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface May 29, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface May 18, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface May 15, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Apr 17, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Apr 1, 2026
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