Storm report · Kay

Hail in Kaw City Jul 11, 2026

Hit 23 days ago

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.5" aloft.

Largest hailstone

1"

≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint

28

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 6th most severe storm Kaw City 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.

2.2 /10
Hail size
25 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
29 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Kaw City 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.

NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Kaw City, OK on Jul 11, 2026

The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.

Max size 1" Detections 0
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Kaw City, OK on Jul 11, 2026

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.

Max size 0.5"
The storm in context

Where Jul 11, 2026 sits in Kaw City's hail record

This was Kaw City's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 7 days after the Jul 4, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Kaw City at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jul 11, 2026 convective day was bigger than Kaw City: the same system put hail over 483 other tracked cities, 61 of them in Oklahoma. Nearest: Ponca City (8 miles west, up to 1"); Newkirk (9 miles northwest, up to 1.75"); Arkansas City (19 miles northwest, up to 1").

These maps are stills from Kaw City's Jul 11, 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.

The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Kaw City. 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.

Shingle-bruising hail

What 1" hail means for Kaw City roofs

Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$336K

Potential roof exposure — 28 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over Kaw City on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Kaw City storm history — this Jul 11, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.

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Kaw City hail history

7 recorded storm days in Kaw City, OK

← All hail in Kaw City

Other storms in Kaw City

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.