Hail storms on May 8, 2026
379 cities across 11 states recorded hail on May 8, 2026 — a multi-state outbreak. The largest stone reached 4" over Chickasha — softball or larger, severe, roof-replacing hail.
379
across 11 states4"
≈ softball or larger · Chickasha571,341
205
A storm day on Overview is a convective day — it runs from noon to noon UTC, so late-night hail is grouped with the afternoon storm that spawned it rather than split across two calendar dates. Everything below happened inside the May 8, 2026 convective day. Across those footprints sit roughly 571,341 homes, and 205 ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service. The cities are listed with the biggest storm first, measured by Overview's severity score. Each row links through to that city's own storm page, where you'll find the radar surfaces, every ground report filed, and the hail footprint drawn on the map. The counts here are the size of the set of cities Overview tracks — never "every US city" — so read a quiet day as "quiet among the places we watch," not as proof nothing happened elsewhere.
Every city we track that saw hail on May 8, 2026
Oklahoma
116 cities · up to 4"
Louisiana
85 cities · up to 4"
Mississippi
21 cities · up to 3.25"
Arkansas
15 cities · up to 2.5"
Texas
86 cities · up to 2.5"
Florida
17 cities · up to 2.5"
Alabama
5 cities · up to 2.5"
Missouri
11 cities · up to 2.25"
New York
5 cities · up to 1.75"
Kansas
14 cities · up to 1.25"
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