Wind gust 63 mph
1 NNE Junction City Geary County
“PWS report. (TOP)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Riley
Hail in Fort Riley · Jun 8, 2026
NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1"; the estimated-size surface reached 0" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1" ≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint 0
Ground reports 4 4 wind
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size
Convective day · Jun 8, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 6th most severe storm Fort Riley has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 2.5 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
2.5 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 67 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Fort Riley saw the hail — from two instruments
Jun 8, 2026 · Fort Riley, KS
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.
NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
Radar signature field NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.
Max size
1"
Detections
0
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field 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
0"
The storm in context
Where Jun 8, 2026 sits in Fort Riley's hail record.
This was Fort Riley's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 21 days after the May 18, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Fort Riley at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jun 8, 2026 convective day was bigger than Fort Riley: the same system put hail over 359 other tracked cities, 173 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Milford (5 miles west, up to 1"); Junction City (10 miles south, up to 1"); Manhattan (13 miles northeast, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 7 Fort Riley storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
Ground reports
What people on the ground reported
4 reports filed with the NWS
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
4 reports Wind gust 73 mph
1 NNE Junction City Geary County
“Personal weather station report. (TOP)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 61 mph
2 NW Junction City Geary County
“(TOP)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 62 mph
2 NW Junction City Geary County
“Personal weather station report. (TOP)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Hail was reported over 16 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Junction City — beyond Fort Riley itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Fort Riley roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Fort Riley hail history
Other storms in Fort Riley.
7 recorded storm days in Fort Riley, KS
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NEXRAD surface Storm date Fort Riley / KS
Sep 19, 2026
1.5" Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Riley / KS
Sep 12, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Riley / KS
May 18, 2026
3.25" Signatures 3.25" Estimated 1.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
NEXRAD surface Storm date Fort Riley / KS
May 17, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Riley / KS
Apr 25, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Riley / KS
Apr 23, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Sep 20, 2026.