Storm report · Grant

Hail in Medford Apr 17, 2026

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 75 hail signatures up to 4", and the radar-estimated size reached 2.5" aloft. At 4" — softball or larger — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

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Largest hailstone

≈ softball or larger · the largest NEXRAD radar signature

Homes in the hail footprint

1,554

Ground reports

9 hail

Severity

The most severe storm Medford 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.

9.1 /10

Hail size: 100 /100
Homes exposed: 64 /100
Ground truth: 100 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Medford saw the hail — from two instruments

The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.

NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Medford, OK on Apr 17, 2026 — Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.

Max size 4" Detections 75

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Medford, OK on Apr 17, 2026 — The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.

Max size 2.5"

The storm in context

Where Apr 17, 2026 sits in Medford's hail record

This was Medford's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 14 days after the Apr 3, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 19 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Medford at 4" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Apr 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Medford: the same system put hail over 1,016 other tracked cities, 109 of them in Oklahoma. Nearest: Hunter (7 miles south, up to 2.25"); Pond Creek (9 miles southwest, up to 4"); Lamont (9 miles southeast, up to 4").

These maps are stills from Medford's Apr 17, 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

9 reports

Hail size 1.75"

3 E Pond Creek Grant County

11:12 PM UTC

“(OUN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 2"

3 SE Jefferson Grant County

11:24 PM UTC

“(OUN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 1.75"

Pond Creek Grant County

11:09 PM UTC

“Corrects previous hail report from Pond Creek. Social media image showing a ruler measurement. (OUN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 1.75"

Pond Creek Grant County

11:10 PM UTC

“(OUN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 1.25"

2 S Medford Grant County

10:24 PM UTC

“Facebook report with picture. Time based on radar. (OUN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 1.25"

Lamont Grant County

11:29 PM UTC

“(OUN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 2.75"

Lamont Grant County

11:30 PM UTC

“(OUN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 3.25"

Lamont Grant County

11:25 PM UTC

“Social media image showing a ruler measurement. Time estimated by radar. (OUN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 3"

Lamont Grant County

11:37 PM UTC

“(OUN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Storm forensics

How the storm moved

The storm tracked southeast at roughly 10 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.

Hail was reported over 73 minutes, from 10:24 PM UTC to 11:37 PM UTC .

Reports came from Pond Creek, Jefferson, and Lamont — beyond Medford itself.

Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.

Severe, roof-replacing hail

What 4" hail means for Medford 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

$19M

Potential roof exposure — 1,554 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs

8 jobs

Illustrative work

~$120K

Close just 0.5% of the 1,554 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 April 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

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Medford hail history

19 recorded storm days in Medford, OK

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