Wind gust 61 mph
3 ENE Garden City Finney County
“Weather Underground site - KKSGARDE143. (DDC)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Garden City Jun 21, 2026
Hit 43 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Garden City this day.
Largest hailstone
0.75"
≈ penny to nickel · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
3,052
Ground reports
8
8 windThe 3rd 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.
4.4 /10
- Hail size
- 19 /100
- Homes exposed
- 70 /100
- Ground truth
- 100 /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
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.
Radar-estimated hail size
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
0.75"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 21, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Garden City, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jun 21, 2026 sits in Garden City's hail record
This was Garden City's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Jun 20, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Garden City at 0.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 21, 2026 convective day was bigger than Garden City: the same system put hail over 415 other tracked cities, 74 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Holcomb (11 miles northwest, up to 0.75"); Ingalls (18 miles southeast, up to 0.75"); Lakin (19 miles west, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Garden City's Jun 21, 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.
Wind reports
8 reports Wind gust 81 mph
2 ENE Garden City Finney County
“KSDOT (via Synoptic API) - KS010. (DDC)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 62 mph
1 ENE Garden City Finney County
“KSDOT (via Synoptic API) - KS010. (DDC)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 58 mph
2 NW Garden City Finney County
“Davis Weatherlink personal weather station. (DDC)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 60 mph
1 NNE Garden City Finney County
“Storm chaser reported 60 mph gusts on the north side of Garden City via social media. (DDC)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 65 mph
1 SW Garden City Finney County
“(DDC)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 63 mph
10 NNW Holcomb Finney County
“Davis weatherlink personal station. (DDC)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 82 mph
3 NW Pierceville Finney County
“ASOS station KGCK 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
The storm tracked southeast at roughly 15 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.
Hail was reported over 56 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Holcomb and Pierceville — beyond Garden City itself.
What 0.75" hail means for Garden City roofs
Hail this size sits right at the edge of the National Weather Service severe threshold. Newer roofs usually shrug it off, but aging or already-worn shingles can bruise, and soft metals — vents, flashing, gutters — often show the first dents.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$37M
Potential roof exposure — 3,052 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
15 jobs
Illustrative work
~$225K
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.
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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 20, 2026
2.25" Estimated 2.25"
2
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.