Hail in Kansas City on Monday, April 27, 2026
The Storm Prediction Center logged 21 hail reports in Kansas City on Monday, April 27, 2026, between 3:33 am and 6:09 am CDT, in 5 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at 2 SW Olathe (Johnson, KS) at 5:47 am. NOAA radar flagged 753 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 155 rated a 100% chance of hail and 135 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 11 places in Cass, MO, Johnson, KS, Leavenworth, KS, Platte, MO and Wyandotte, KS, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Olathe 5 reports, up to 1.75 in
- De Soto 3 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Tonganoxie 3 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Shawnee 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Stanley 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Clare 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Dearborn 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Maywood 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Peculiar 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Piper 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Ridgely 1 report, up to 1.00 in
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.
| Time | Size | Place | County | NWS comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:33 am | 1.00 | Dearborn | Platte, MO | Time estimated from radar. (EAX) |
| 3:38 am | 1.00 | 2 N Tonganoxie | Leavenworth, KS | (EAX) |
| 3:40 am | 1.00 | 3 NW Tonganoxie | Leavenworth, KS | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (EAX) |
| 3:41 am | 1.00 | 3 NW Ridgely | Platte, MO | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (EAX) |
| 3:55 am | 1.00 | 1 SE Piper | Wyandotte, KS | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (EAX) |
| 3:56 am | 1.00 | 2 ENE Tonganoxie | Leavenworth, KS | (EAX) |
| 3:58 am | 1.00 | 1 NNW Maywood | Wyandotte, KS | (EAX) |
| 5:32 am | 1.00 | 1 W De Soto | Johnson, KS | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (EAX) |
| 5:33 am | 1.25 | 2 SE De Soto | Johnson, KS | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (EAX) |
| 5:41 am | 1.00 | 4 SW Shawnee | Johnson, KS | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (EAX) |
| 5:42 am | 1.00 | 5 E De Soto | Johnson, KS | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (EAX) |
| 5:43 am | 1.00 | 3 NW Olathe | Johnson, KS | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (EAX) |
| 5:46 am | 1.25 | 3 N Clare | Johnson, KS | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (EAX) |
| 5:46 am | 1.75 | 4 SW Shawnee | Johnson, KS | Spotter called in... reported hail between 3/4 and 1 3/4 between 5:42-5:46am... time confirmed from radar. (EAX) |
| 5:47 am | 1.75 | 2 SW Olathe | Johnson, KS | Report relayed from social media. Time estimated from radar. (EAX) |
| 5:48 am | 1.00 | 1 SE Olathe | Johnson, KS | (EAX) |
| 5:50 am | 1.00 | 2 NW Stanley | Johnson, KS | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (EAX) |
| 5:56 am | 1.25 | 1 NW Olathe | Johnson, KS | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (EAX) |
| 6:00 am | 1.25 | 1 NW Olathe | Johnson, KS | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (EAX) |
| 6:05 am | 1.00 | 1 NW Stanley | Johnson, KS | (EAX) |
| 6:09 am | 1.00 | Peculiar | Cass, MO | Delayed social media report. Time estimated from radar. (EAX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
753 signatures from 5 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; 155 were rated 100% and 27 had a maximum expected size of 2 inches or more.
| Radar | Signatures | Rated 100% | 1 in or more | 2 in or more | Largest expected | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KMCI | 467 | 78 | 73 | 6 | 2.25 in | 1:36 am | 7:03 am |
| KEAX | 184 | 62 | 48 | 21 | 3.50 in | 1:44 am | 4:00 pm |
| KSGF | 86 | 15 | 13 | 0 | 1.75 in | 3:34 am | 3:05 pm |
| KTWX | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 in | 1:42 am | 4:13 pm |
| KICT | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 6:34 am | 6:34 am |
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.