Storm report · Clay

Hail in Clay Center May 16, 2026

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0", and the radar-estimated size reached 0" aloft.

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Largest hailstone

≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft

Homes in the hail footprint

Ground reports

1 wind

Severity

The 16th most severe storm Clay Center 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.

0.2 /10

Hail size: 0 /100
Homes exposed: 0 /100
Ground truth: 17 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Clay Center saw the hail — from two instruments

The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.

NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Clay Center, KS on May 16, 2026 — Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.

Max size 0" Detections 0

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Clay Center, KS on May 16, 2026 — The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.

Max size 0"

The storm in context

Where May 16, 2026 sits in Clay Center's hail record

This was Clay Center's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the May 14, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 16th of the 16 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Clay Center at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The May 16, 2026 convective day was bigger than Clay Center: the same system put hail over 711 other tracked cities, 98 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Green (13 miles northeast, up to 0"); Miltonvale (19 miles west, up to 1"); Greenleaf (22 miles north, up to 0").

These maps are stills from Clay Center's May 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.

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.

Wind reports

1 report

Wind gust 63 mph

1 ENE Clay Center Clay County

5:02 AM UTC

“CWOP station. (TOP)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Below the severe threshold

What 0" hail means for Clay Center 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.

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Clay Center hail history

16 recorded storm days in Clay Center, KS

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