Hail on Date

Hail in Kansas City on Monday, April 13, 2026

The Storm Prediction Center logged 5 hail reports in Kansas City on Monday, April 13, 2026, between 10:15 pm and 10:36 pm CDT, in 1 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 1.00 inches at Harrisonville (Cass, MO) at 10:36 pm. NOAA radar flagged 463 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 172 rated a 100% chance of hail and 94 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.

5spotter hail reports in the metro
1.00 inlargest reported, Harrisonville
463radar hail signatures inside the metro, 172 rated 100%
1.75 inlargest expected size on radar
Map of Kansas City counties with 463 radar hail signatures and 5 spotter hail reports on April 13, 2026 Jackson Clay Platte Cass Ray Clinton Lafayette Johnson Wyandotte Leavenworth Miami 1.00 in, Harrisonville
Amber dots are radar hail signatures inside the metro's counties (every cell the algorithm rated, 10% to 100% chance of hail), darkest under 1 inch, brighter from 1 inch, brightest at 2 inches and up. Triangles are spotter reports; the filled one is the largest. County names are drawn at each county's center.

Where hail was reported

Reports came from 2 places in Cass, MO, named as the National Weather Service described them.

Every hail report logged that day

Times are Central Daylight Time. Sizes are in inches, as reported. The comment is the National Weather Service's text as published in the Storm Prediction Center's daily log.

TimeSizePlaceCountyNWS comment
10:15 pm1.002 S PeculiarCass, MOSocial media report. Time estimated from radar. (EAX)
10:15 pm1.003 SW PeculiarCass, MOSocial media report. Time estimated from radar. (EAX)
10:26 pm1.004 W HarrisonvilleCass, MOReport from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (EAX)
10:34 pm1.00HarrisonvilleCass, MOPublic report and photo of quarter size hail in Harrisonville. Time corrected from radar. (EAX)
10:36 pm1.00HarrisonvilleCass, MOReport from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (EAX)

What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro

463 signatures from 4 radars fell inside the metro's counties on this local date, counting every cell the algorithm rated from a 10% to a 100% chance of hail; 172 were rated 100% and 0 had a maximum expected size of 2 inches or more.

RadarSignaturesRated 100%1 in or more2 in or moreLargest expectedFirstLast
KMCI172682201.50 in2:37 am10:09 pm
KSGF112443001.50 in2:52 am10:51 pm
KTWX98352001.50 in4:26 am10:50 pm
KEAX81252201.75 in4:17 am10:45 pm

Each radar that scans a storm writes its own signature about every 4 to 6 minutes, so one storm produces many rows and overlapping radars count it more than once. The raw rows for this day are in NOAA's Severe Weather Data Inventory.

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Spotter reports come from the Storm Prediction Center's preliminary daily logs, grouped here by local calendar date (Central Daylight Time) and by county: a report counts for Kansas City when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 11 counties (the counties of Jackson, MO, Clay, MO, Platte, MO, Cass, MO, Ray, MO, Clinton, MO, Lafayette, MO, Johnson, KS, Wyandotte, KS, Leavenworth, KS and Miami, KS). Radar signatures are estimates from the Hail Detection Algorithm, not measured stones; they include every cell it rated, from a 10% to a 100% probability of hail. How these pages are built.