Tornado Rating unknown
4 E Stella Pottawatomie County
“Scattered damage from near the Cleveland-Pottawatomie County line to near the Shawnee Twin Lakes. (OUN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Mcloud Jan 8, 2026
NEXRAD caught this storm: 11 hail signatures up to 1.25". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm — see the ground reports below.
Largest hailstone
1.25"
≈ half-dollar · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
880
Ground reports
2
1 wind · 1 tornadoThe 2nd most severe storm Mcloud 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.
4.1 /10
- Hail size
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 59 /100
- Ground truth
- 50 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Mcloud 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'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
1.25"
Detections
11
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Jan 8, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jan 8, 2026 sits in Mcloud's hail record
This was Mcloud's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Mcloud at 1.25" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jan 8, 2026 convective day was bigger than Mcloud: the same system put hail over 35 other tracked cities, 15 of them in Oklahoma. Nearest: Chandler (22 miles north, up to 0.75"); Seminole (24 miles east, up to 1.5"); Lexington (27 miles southwest, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Mcloud's Jan 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.
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 reportWind reports
1 report Wind gust 59 mph
3 NNW Shawnee Pottawatomie County
“(OUN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Hail was reported over 18 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Shawnee and Stella — beyond Mcloud itself.
What 1.25" hail means for Mcloud 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
$11M
Potential roof exposure — 880 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
4 jobs
Illustrative work
~$60K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around January 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Mcloud on the live map
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Mcloud hail history
← All hail in Mcloud 5 recorded storm days in Mcloud, OK
Other storms in Mcloud
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.