Hail size 1.25"
8 ENE Garden City Finney County
“Hail was measured approximately 20 minutes after it fell. Time of event based on radar data. (DDC)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Garden City Jun 20, 2026
Hit 44 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2.25" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Garden City this day. At 2.25" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
2.25"
≈ tennis ball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
1,539
Ground reports
2
1 hail · 1 windThe most severe storm Garden 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.
5.5 /10
- Hail size
- 56 /100
- Homes exposed
- 64 /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 Garden City 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
2.25"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 20, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Garden City, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jun 20, 2026 sits in Garden City's hail record
This was Garden City's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 5 days after the Jun 15, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Garden City at 2.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 20, 2026 convective day was bigger than Garden City: the same system put hail over 298 other tracked cities, 121 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Holcomb (11 miles northwest, up to 3.25"); Ingalls (18 miles southeast, up to 2"); Cimarron (36 miles southeast, up to 2.75").
These maps are stills from Garden 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
1 reportWind reports
1 report Wind gust 60 mph
1 ENE Garden City Finney County
“Mesonet station KS010 US-50 @ K-156 bridge Garden City. (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
Hail was reported over 64 minutes, from to .
What 2.25" hail means for Garden 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
$18M
Potential roof exposure — 1,539 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
8 jobs
Illustrative work
~$120K
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 Garden City on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Garden City storm history — this Jun 20, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.
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Garden City hail history
← All hail in Garden City 13 recorded storm days in Garden City, KS
Other storms in Garden City
Jul 23, 2026
0.5" Signatures 0.5"
1
ground report 
Jul 10, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 3, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 2, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1.25"
2
ground reports 
Jul 1, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 30, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 24, 2026
1.5" Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 22, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 21, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
8
ground reports 
Jun 15, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 9, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 1, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 1"
1
ground report
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.