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Hail in Medford Apr 23, 2026

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 94 hail signatures up to 2.5", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.5" aloft. At 2.5" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm — see the ground reports below.

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Largest hailstone

2.5"

≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature

Homes in the hail footprint

373

Ground reports

6 hail · 1 tornado

Severity

The 3rd 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.

6.5 /10

Hail size: 63 /100
Homes exposed: 51 /100
Ground truth: 100 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Medford 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-signature map of the hail storm over Medford, OK on Apr 23, 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 2.5" Detections 94

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Medford, OK on Apr 23, 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 1.5"

The storm in context

Where Apr 23, 2026 sits in Medford's hail record

This was Medford's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Apr 22, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 19 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Medford at 2.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Apr 23, 2026 convective day was bigger than Medford: the same system put hail over 703 other tracked cities, 91 of them in Oklahoma. Nearest: Hunter (7 miles south, up to 2.5"); Lamont (9 miles southeast, up to 2.5"); Pond Creek (9 miles southwest, up to 1.75").

These maps are stills from Medford's Apr 23, 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.

Tornado reports

1 report

Tornado Rating unknown

6 ESE Renfrow Grant County

11:42 PM UTC

“Tornado is ongoing at 6:46 pm. (OUN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail reports

6 reports

Hail size 1"

Pond Creek Grant County

12:48 AM UTC

“(OUN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 1.25"

6 N Hunter Grant County

1:17 AM UTC

“Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (OUN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 2.5"

3 S Renfrow Grant County

11:15 PM UTC

“(OUN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 2"

5 S Renfrow Grant County

11:22 PM UTC

“Report from mPING: Hen Egg (2.00 in.). (OUN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 1"

Lamont Grant County

1:33 AM UTC

“(OUN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 2.75"

5 NW Deer Creek Grant County

11:20 PM UTC

“(OUN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Storm forensics

How the storm moved

The storm tracked southeast at roughly 5 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.

Hail was reported over 138 minutes, from 11:15 PM UTC to 1:33 AM UTC .

Reports came from Pond Creek, Hunter, Renfrow, Lamont, and Deer Creek — 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 2.5" 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

$4.5M

Potential roof exposure — 373 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs

2 jobs

Illustrative work

~$30K

Close just 0.5% of the 373 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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