HailEvidence NWS storm records · per-address verification

HailEvidencehail history → Ponca City, OK

Ponca City, OK hail history

Every figure below is from the NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database — the official NWS record — counting events recorded within 10 miles of the Ponca City city centroid, 1950 to present.

181hail events since 1950
128≥ 1.00" (quarter) or larger
3.00"largest on record · 1998-04-14
2026-04-17most recent hail event

Check hail at your exact Ponca City address — free

Hail by year — last 15 years

YearHail events ≤ 10 miLargest hail
2026 3 2.00" (hen egg)
2025 4 0.75" (penny)
2024 16 2.75" (baseball)
2023 8 2.00" (hen egg)
2022 0
2021 1 2.00" (hen egg)
2020 0
2019 2 1.50" (ping pong ball)
2018 1 0.88" (nickel)
2017 0
2016 9 1.75" (golf ball)
2015 2 1.00" (quarter)
2014 0
2013 2 1.00" (quarter)
2012 1 0.88" (nickel)

Note: the current and prior year reflect the latest NCEI compile and grow as NWS finalizes reports; same-day activity appears on this site's storm-day pages before it reaches this table.

Wind and tornado record

Most recent recorded events

DateTypeMagnitudeDistance
2026-04-23 Tornado EFU 10 mi
2026-04-17 Tornado EF0 5.5 mi
2026-04-17 Tornado EF1 2.4 mi
2026-04-17 Tornado EFU 6.2 mi
2026-04-17 Tornado EF1 7.9 mi
2026-04-17 Tornado EF1 7.9 mi
2026-04-17 Tornado EF1 7.2 mi
2026-04-17 Hail 1.75" 5.2 mi
2026-04-17 Hail 2.00" 6.8 mi
2026-04-15 Hail 1.00" 4.6 mi

2026-04-23: “An Oklahoma City television station meteorologist observed a tornado develop just southeast of the city limits of Newkirk. This tornado appears to have moved through an open landscape southeast of Newkirk and no damage was reported, so the specific path is estimated.”

2026-04-17: “An OKC television storm chaser observed this tornado develop southwest of the intersection of US-60 and SH-156 to the west of Ponca City. The tornado initially moved northeast crossing US-60, and then turned east-southeast after crossing Ranch Drive. Tree damage was noted just north and along the US”

2026-04-17: “This is the second segment of a four-segment tornado. This tornado moved east from Ponca City in Kay County into Osage County and across McCord, where numerous trees were uprooted, power poles were blown down, and homes and businesses were damaged. The tornado continued to move east, roughly paralle”

Storm-day records for Ponca City — “did it hail on this date?”

Each recorded hail day in Ponca City has its own page with the official NWS reports for that date.

Disputing a claim at a Ponca City address?

This page covers the city. A claim is argued about one property, so start with the free address check — it counts the recorded events around your address, not the city centroid. If you need the record itself in writing, that's the citable verification report — $29.

Check hail at your Ponca City address — free

Type a street address — or just a ZIP code. We measure it against every hail event the National Weather Service recorded in the last 10 years and show you how many fall within 1, 3 and 10 miles — free, instantly, nothing stored. Rural property with no street address? Enter coordinates as 44.05, -107.31.

Address lookup by the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder. Records: NOAA NCEI Storm Events (final) plus SPC preliminary reports for storms newer than the latest compile — see methodology.

Roof damaged near Ponca City? Get a repair quote from a local roofer

Free for homeowners. We route your request to one local roofing pro who works storm damage around Ponca City — one contact, never a call-list blast.

Nearby hail history

McCord, OKKildare, OKWhite Eagle, OKNewkirk, OKTonkawa Tribal Housing, OKPeckham, OKBlackwell, OKTonkawa, OKBurbank, OKWebb City, OK
NWS records are point and path observations. The absence of a nearby report does NOT prove that no hail fell at this address — it means no observation was logged nearby. A report of nearby hail documents the event; it does not by itself prove damage to a specific structure.

source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events computed 2026-08-09