Storm report · Kay

Hail in Ponca City Apr 15, 2026

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Ponca City this day.

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Largest hailstone

0.5"

≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft

Homes in the hail footprint

235

Ground reports

1 hail

Severity

The 14th most severe storm Ponca 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: 13 /100
Homes exposed: 47 /100
Ground truth: 17 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Ponca City 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.

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Ponca City, OK on Apr 15, 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"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 15, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Ponca City, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Apr 15, 2026 sits in Ponca City's hail record

This was Ponca City's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 14 days after the Apr 1, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 14th of the 16 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Ponca City at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Apr 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Ponca City: the same system put hail over 425 other tracked cities, 35 of them in Oklahoma. Nearest: Burbank (15 miles southeast, up to 1"); Ralston (27 miles southeast, up to 0.75"); Fairfax (28 miles southeast, up to 1").

These maps are stills from Ponca City's Apr 15, 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

1 report

Hail size 1"

3 WSW Ponca City Kay County

2:25 AM UTC

“Near US highway 60 and OK highway 156. (OUN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Ponca City roofs

Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$2.8M

Potential roof exposure — 235 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs

1 job

Illustrative work

~$15K

Close just 0.5% of the 235 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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Ponca City hail history

16 recorded storm days in Ponca City, OK

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