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Hail in Alta Vista May 30, 2026

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 12 hail signatures up to 1.75", and the radar-estimated size reached 1" aloft.

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Largest hailstone

1.75"

≈ golf ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature

Homes in the hail footprint

126

Ground reports

none filed

Severity

The 8th most severe storm Alta Vista has seen in the last 12 months

Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

3.7 /10

Hail size: 44 /100
Homes exposed: 42 /100
Ground truth: 0 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Alta Vista saw the hail — from two instruments

Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.

NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Alta Vista, KS on May 30, 2026 — NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.

Max size 1.75" Detections 12

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Alta Vista, KS on May 30, 2026 — Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.

Max size 1"

The storm in context

Where May 30, 2026 sits in Alta Vista's hail record

This was Alta Vista's 9th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the May 29, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 8th of the 16 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Alta Vista at 1.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The May 30, 2026 convective day was bigger than Alta Vista: the same system put hail over 541 other tracked cities, 228 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Alma (10 miles north, up to 1.75"); Eskridge (17 miles east, up to 1"); Allen (18 miles southeast, up to 1").

These maps are stills from Alta Vista's May 30, 2026 storm. In the Overview app the same surfaces are live — radar updating in real time, radar-estimated hail size as it forms, and NWS spotter reports pinned where they're filed — with a radar replay you can scrub back over any past day.

Ground reports

What people on the ground reported

These are storm reports filed with the National Weather Service and released through the NOAA Storm Prediction Center — public-domain observations from spotters, the public, and NWS surveys. We quote each one exactly as filed.

The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Alta Vista. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.

Widespread claimable damage

What 1.75" hail means for Alta Vista roofs

At an inch and a half, hail cracks shingles, strips granules down to the mat, and dents gutters, vents, and siding. A footprint like this typically produces a wave of insurance claims — and the contractor who reaches the homeowner first usually gets the inspection.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$1.5M

Potential roof exposure — 126 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs

1 job

Illustrative work

~$15K

Close just 0.5% of the 126 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.

Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around May 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

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Alta Vista hail history

16 recorded storm days in Alta Vista, KS

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