Hail size 1"
Conway Springs Sumner County
“Dimes with some quarters. (ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Conway Springs May 18, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Conway Springs this day. At 2" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
2"
≈ tennis ball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
2,188
Ground reports
2
1 hail · 1 windThe most severe storm Conway Springs 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.
5.2 /10
- Hail size
- 50 /100
- Homes exposed
- 67 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Conway Springs 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
2"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for May 18, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Conway Springs, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where May 18, 2026 sits in Conway Springs's hail record
This was Conway Springs's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 31 days after the Apr 17, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Conway Springs at 2" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The May 18, 2026 convective day was bigger than Conway Springs: the same system put hail over 726 other tracked cities, 258 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Mayfield (7 miles south, up to 1.75"); Viola (9 miles northwest, up to 1.25"); Peck (11 miles east, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Conway Springs's May 18, 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
1 reportWind reports
1 report Wind gust 65 mph
Conway Springs Sumner County
“(ICT)”
— 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
Hail was reported over 27 minutes, from to .
What 2" hail means for Conway Springs 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
$26M
Potential roof exposure — 2,188 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
11 jobs
Illustrative work
~$165K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around May 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Conway Springs on the live map
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Conway Springs hail history
← All hail in Conway Springs 8 recorded storm days in Conway Springs, KS
Other storms in Conway Springs
Jul 9, 2026
2.25" Signatures 2.25" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 25, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 18, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
1
ground report 
May 31, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 30, 2026
2" Signatures 2" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 17, 2026
2.25" Signatures 2.25" Estimated 1.5"
1
ground report 
Mar 10, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
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 3, 2026.