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Hail in Burns · Jun 8, 2026

NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1"; the estimated-size surface reached 0" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 1" ≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint 0
Ground reports 0 none filed
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size

Convective day · Jun 8, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 16th most severe storm Burns has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 1.5 / 10
Storm severity score

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

1.5 /10
Peak hail signal
25 /100

Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.

Homes exposed
0 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Burns saw the hail — from two instruments

Jun 8, 2026 · Burns, KS

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.

NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Burns, KS on Jun 8, 2026 Radar signature field

The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.

Max size 1" Detections 0
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Jun 8, 2026 Estimated size field

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.

Max size 0"

The storm in context

Where Jun 8, 2026 sits in Burns's hail record.

This was Burns's 12th recorded hail day, arriving 4 days after the Jun 4, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 16th of the 18 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Burns at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jun 8, 2026 convective day was bigger than Burns: the same system put hail over 359 other tracked cities, 173 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Cassoday (8 miles east, up to 0"); Florence (14 miles north, up to 1"); Peabody (15 miles north, up to 1").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 18 Burns storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.

Ground reports

What people on the ground reported

No reports filed with the NWS

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 Burns. 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.

Damage-capable hail signal

What 1" hail means for Burns roofs.

Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.

Radar reading · not confirmed damage

Burns hail history

Other storms in Burns.

18 recorded storm days in Burns, KS
← All hail in Burns
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Aug 7, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Aug 7, 2026

1.25"
Estimated 1.25"
1 ground report Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Aug 6, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Aug 6, 2026

1.5"
Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Jul 10, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Jul 10, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Jul 4, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Jul 4, 2026

0.75"
Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Jun 17, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Jun 17, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Jun 13, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Jun 13, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Jun 4, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Jun 4, 2026

0.5"
Signatures 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on May 30, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

May 30, 2026

1.75"
Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on May 29, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

May 29, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on May 18, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

May 18, 2026

0.75"
Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Apr 26, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Apr 26, 2026

1.75"
Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Apr 23, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Apr 23, 2026

3.25"
Signatures 3.25" Estimated 1.5"
3 ground reports Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Apr 17, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Apr 17, 2026

2"
Signatures 2" Estimated 1"
2 ground reports Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Apr 13, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Apr 13, 2026

1.5"
Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Apr 11, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Apr 11, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Apr 3, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Apr 3, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Mar 10, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Mar 10, 2026

0.75"
Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →

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A storm day here is a convective day — it runs from noon to noon UTC, so late-night hail is grouped with the afternoon storm that spawned it rather than split across two calendar dates. Ground reports are public-domain observations from the NOAA Storm Prediction Center. Radar tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Aug 8, 2026.