Hail in Carter County, Missouri
Hail April 28, 2026 · Carter County, Missouri
Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.
What the National Weather Service wrote
Hailstones photographed in Grandin were around an inch to an inch and a half, with one particularly elongated and irregularly shaped hailstone measuring to two and a half inches. No damages were reported.
The wider storm
With a west-east oriented boundary positioned through the Ozarks region of Missouri with low pressure positioned in Southwestern Missouri, a small but potent surging storm line pushed through Carter, Ripley, and Butler Counties mid-afternoon on the 28th. Large hail and winds in excess of 70mph were associated with this bowing segment as it dove east-southeastward from South Central Missouri into the Bootheel. A more intense pocket of wind known as a macroburst produced winds up to 100mph across portions of Ripley County from southeast of Doniphan to south/southwest of Naylor, uprooting dozens of trees and damaging several structures and multiple vehicles.
For the Carter-Ripley-Butler corridor, environmental parameters included: MLCAPE of 1000-2000J/kg, DCAPE of 500J/kg, very strong effective bulk shear of 60-70kts, and mid-level lapse rates of 6-7C/km.
Began near Grandin (36.8295, -90.8233).
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1349965. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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