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Hail in Ponca City May 31, 2026

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.5" aloft.

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Largest hailstone

≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature

Homes in the hail footprint

139

Ground reports

none filed

Severity

The 12th 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.

2.6 /10

Hail size: 25 /100
Homes exposed: 43 /100
Ground truth: 0 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Ponca City saw the hail — from two instruments

Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.

NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Ponca City, OK on May 31, 2026 — The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.

Max size 1" Detections 0

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Ponca City, OK on May 31, 2026 — Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.

Max size 0.5"

The storm in context

Where May 31, 2026 sits in Ponca City's hail record

This was Ponca City's 8th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the May 30, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 12th of the 16 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Ponca City at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The May 31, 2026 convective day was bigger than Ponca City: the same system put hail over 637 other tracked cities, 13 of them in Oklahoma. Nearest: Tonkawa (22 miles southwest, up to 1"); Red Rock (26 miles south, up to 1"); Morrison (31 miles south, up to 0").

These maps are stills from Ponca City's May 31, 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.

The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Ponca City. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.

Shingle-bruising hail

What 1" hail means for Ponca City 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

$1.7M

Potential roof exposure — 139 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 139 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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