Hail size 1"
5 ESE Ft. Dodge Ford County
“Report received through social media. (DDC)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Dodge City Jun 20, 2026
Hit 44 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 3" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Dodge City this day. At 3" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
3"
≈ baseball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
14,380
Ground reports
4
3 hail · 1 windThe most severe storm Dodge City 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.
7.6 /10
- Hail size
- 75 /100
- Homes exposed
- 83 /100
- Ground truth
- 67 /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 Dodge City 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.
Radar-estimated hail size
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
3"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 20, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Dodge City, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jun 20, 2026 sits in Dodge City's hail record
This was Dodge City's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 11 days after the Jun 9, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Dodge City at 3" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 20, 2026 convective day was bigger than Dodge City: the same system put hail over 298 other tracked cities, 121 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Ensign (11 miles west, up to 2.75"); Wright (13 miles northeast, up to 2.75"); Ford (14 miles east, up to 2.25").
These maps are stills from Dodge City's Jun 20, 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"
5 SW Howell Gray County
“Report received through social media with pictures. (DDC)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
1 N Dodge City Ford County
“(DDC)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind reports
1 report Wind gust 58 mph
3 ENE Dodge City Ford County
“ASOS station KDDC Dodge City Regional Airport. (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 10 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.
Hail was reported over 63 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Ft. Dodge and Howell — beyond Dodge City itself.
What 3" hail means for Dodge City 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
$173M
Potential roof exposure — 14,380 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
72 jobs
Illustrative work
~$1.1M
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.
Track hail over Dodge City on the live map
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Dodge City hail history
← All hail in Dodge City 10 recorded storm days in Dodge City, KS
Other storms in Dodge City
Jul 30, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 23, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 10, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 9, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 21, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 9, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.75"
1
ground report 
Jun 1, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
5
ground reports 
May 30, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
1
ground report 
Apr 9, 2026
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.