Hail in Altoona Jun 13, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Altoona this day.
0.5"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft198
0
none filedThe 10th most severe storm Altoona has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 46 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Altoona saw the hail — from two instruments
Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.
Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 13, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Altoona, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jun 13, 2026 sits in Altoona's hail record
This was Altoona's 8th recorded hail day, arriving 13 days after the May 31, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 10th of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Altoona at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 13, 2026 convective day was bigger than Altoona: the same system put hail over 587 other tracked cities, 167 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Benedict (7 miles north, up to 0.5"); Fredonia (9 miles northwest, up to 0.5"); Thayer (14 miles east, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from Altoona's Jun 13, 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.
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.
For this storm over Altoona, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
What 0.5" hail means for Altoona roofs
Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.
$2.4M
Potential roof exposure — 198 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Altoona on the live map
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11 recorded storm days in Altoona, KS
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