Hail in Caldwell Jul 11, 2026
Hit 23 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 25 hail signatures up to 2.25", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.25" aloft. At 2.25" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
2.25"
≈ tennis ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature155
0
none filedThe 4th most severe storm Caldwell 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
- 56 /100
- Homes exposed
- 44 /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 Caldwell 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.
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.
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.
Where Jul 11, 2026 sits in Caldwell's hail record
This was Caldwell's 17th recorded hail day, arriving 7 days after the Jul 4, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 17 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Caldwell at 2.25" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 11, 2026 convective day was bigger than Caldwell: the same system put hail over 483 other tracked cities, 11 of them in Kansas. Nearest: South Haven (14 miles east, up to 1.75"); Braman (17 miles southeast, up to 1.75"); Wellington (18 miles northeast, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills from Caldwell's Jul 11, 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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Caldwell for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
What 2.25" hail means for Caldwell 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.
$1.9M
Potential roof exposure — 155 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Caldwell on the live map
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17 recorded storm days in Caldwell, KS
Other storms in Caldwell
Jul 4, 2026
3.25"
Jun 25, 2026
1"
Jun 21, 2026
1.25"
Jun 20, 2026
0.75"
Jun 18, 2026
0.5"
Jun 17, 2026
1"
Jun 13, 2026
1.25"
May 30, 2026
2.25"
May 29, 2026
May 18, 2026
1.75"
Apr 23, 2026
2.25"
Apr 17, 2026
2.5"
Apr 3, 2026
1"
Mar 10, 2026
1.5"
Mar 5, 2026
1.75"
Mar 3, 2026