Storm report · Mayes

Hail in Locust Grove Apr 25, 2026

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 3 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

32

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 5th most severe storm Locust Grove 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.

2.3 /10
Hail size
25 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
30 /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 Locust Grove 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 Locust Grove, OK on Apr 25, 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 1" Detections 3
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Locust Grove, OK on Apr 25, 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 0.5"
The storm in context

Where Apr 25, 2026 sits in Locust Grove's hail record

This was Locust Grove's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 5th of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Locust Grove at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Apr 25, 2026 convective day was bigger than Locust Grove: the same system put hail over 392 other tracked cities, 93 of them in Oklahoma. Nearest: Rose (14 miles east, up to 1.75"); Proctor (20 miles southeast, up to 2.5"); Tahlequah (24 miles southeast, up to 1.75").

These maps are stills from Locust Grove's Apr 25, 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.

Nobody on the ground filed a report over Locust Grove for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.

Shingle-bruising hail

What 1" hail means for Locust Grove 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

$384K

Potential roof exposure — 32 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
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.

Track hail over Locust Grove on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Locust Grove storm history — this Apr 25, 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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Locust Grove hail history

8 recorded storm days in Locust Grove, OK

← All hail in Locust Grove

Other storms in Locust Grove

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.