Hail storms on May 16, 2026
712 cities across 16 states recorded hail on May 16, 2026 — a multi-state outbreak. The largest stone reached 4" over Trenton — softball or larger, severe, roof-replacing hail.
712
across 16 states4"
≈ softball or larger · Trenton498,110
386
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 16, 2026 convective day. Across those footprints sit roughly 498,110 homes, and 386 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 16, 2026
Missouri
115 cities · up to 4"
Kansas
99 cities · up to 4"
Nebraska
202 cities · up to 4"
Iowa
65 cities · up to 3.75"
Illinois
71 cities · up to 3.75"
Indiana
50 cities · up to 3.25"
Colorado
31 cities · up to 2.75"
Ohio
19 cities · up to 2.5"
Kentucky
34 cities · up to 1.75"
Florida
12 cities · up to 1.75"
Michigan
1 city · up to 1.25"Wisconsin
6 cities · up to 1"
New York
2 cities · up to 1"Wyoming
3 cities · up to 1"Washington
1 city · up to 0.5"Maine
1 city · up to 0.5"Track these May 16, 2026 storms on the live map
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