Hail size 1.5"
3 S Byers Pratt County
“(DDC)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Byers Jun 16, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 3.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Byers this day. At 3.5" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
3.5"
≈ baseball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
196
Ground reports
3
3 hailThe most severe storm Byers 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.
7.1 /10
- Hail size
- 88 /100
- Homes exposed
- 46 /100
- Ground truth
- 50 /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 Byers 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.
Radar-estimated hail size
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
3.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 16, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Byers, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jun 16, 2026 sits in Byers's hail record
This was Byers's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 3 days after the Jun 13, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Byers at 3.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 16, 2026 convective day was bigger than Byers: the same system put hail over 225 other tracked cities, 30 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Macksville (15 miles north, up to 3.5"); Belpre (18 miles northwest, up to 1.5"); Pratt (19 miles southeast, up to 3").
These maps are stills from Byers's Jun 16, 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.
Hail reports
3 reports Hail size 1.75"
2 E Hopewell Pratt County
“Delayed report. Social media report of golf-ball sized hail. (DDC)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.75"
3 NE Hopewell Stafford County
“Delayed report. Social media report of golf ball sized hail. Time estimated via radar. (DDC)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
The storm tracked southeast at roughly 15 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.
Hail was reported over 33 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Hopewell — beyond Byers itself.
What 3.5" hail means for Byers roofs
Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$2.4M
Potential roof exposure — 196 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
1 job
Illustrative work
~$15K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around June 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
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Byers hail history
← All hail in Byers 6 recorded storm days in Byers, KS
Other storms in Byers
Jun 20, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 13, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 1, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
May 29, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 18, 2026
3.5" Signatures 3.5" Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed
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 surfaces are detections and estimates,
not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 2, 2026.