Storm report · Kay

Hail in Ponca City May 18, 2026

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Ponca City this day.

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Largest hailstone

1.5"

≈ ping-pong ball · radar-estimated size aloft

Homes in the hail footprint

14,985

Ground reports

1 hail

Severity

The 5th 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.

4.6 /10

Hail size: 38 /100
Homes exposed: 84 /100
Ground truth: 17 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Ponca City 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.

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Ponca City, OK on May 18, 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 1.5"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for May 18, 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 May 18, 2026 sits in Ponca City's hail record

This was Ponca City's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 10 days after the May 8, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 16 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Ponca City at 1.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The May 18, 2026 convective day was bigger than Ponca City: the same system put hail over 726 other tracked cities, 33 of them in Oklahoma. Nearest: Newkirk (7 miles north, up to 1.5"); Kaw City (8 miles east, up to 0.5"); Blackwell (14 miles west, up to 1.5").

These maps are stills from Ponca City's May 18, 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 1.25"

1 E Ponca City Kay County

6:01 AM UTC

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

Widespread claimable damage

What 1.5" hail means for Ponca City roofs

At an inch and a half, hail cracks shingles, strips granules down to the mat, and dents gutters, vents, and siding. A footprint like this typically produces a wave of insurance claims — and the contractor who reaches the homeowner first usually gets the inspection.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$180M

Potential roof exposure — 14,985 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs

75 jobs

Illustrative work

~$1.1M

Close just 0.5% of the 14,985 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 May 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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