Wind gust 61 mph
3 ENE Garden City Finney County
“Weather Underground site - KKSGARDE143. (DDC)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Finney
Hail in Garden City · Jun 21, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.75" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Garden City that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 0.75" ≈ penny to nickel · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 3,052
Ground reports 8 8 wind
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Jun 21, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 3rd most severe storm Garden City has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 4.4 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
4.4 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 19 /100
- Homes exposed
- 70 /100
- Ground truth
- 100 /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 Garden City saw the hail — from two instruments
Jun 21, 2026 · Garden City, KS
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 Surface resolved
Estimated size field 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.
The storm in context
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 16 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: Ingalls (13 miles southeast, up to 0.75"); Cimarron (23 miles east, up to 0.75"); Scott City (25 miles northwest, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 16 Garden City 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
8 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
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
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.
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.
Near the severe threshold
What 0.75" hail means for Garden City roofs.
A signal this size sits near the National Weather Service severe threshold. Aging shingles and soft metals such as vents, flashing, and gutters may be more vulnerable; roof age, wind, and material condition all matter, and only an inspection can confirm damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
3,052 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$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
Close just 0.5% of the 3,052 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.
Claim window
June 2028
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.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $641 on top of the $150 plan.
Garden City hail history
Other storms in Garden City.
16 recorded storm days in Garden City, KS
Estimated-size surface Storm date Garden City / KS
Sep 14, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Garden City / KS
Sep 9, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
3 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Garden City / KS
Aug 15, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Garden City / KS
Jul 23, 2026
0.5" Signatures 0.5"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Garden City / KS
Jul 10, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Garden City / KS
Jul 3, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Garden City / KS
Jul 2, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1.25"
2 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Garden City / KS
Jul 1, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Garden City / KS
Jun 30, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Garden City / KS
Jun 24, 2026
1.5" Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Garden City / KS
Jun 22, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Garden City / KS
Jun 20, 2026
2.25" Estimated 2.25"
2 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Garden City / KS
Jun 15, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Garden City / KS
Jun 9, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Garden City / KS
Jun 1, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 1"
1 ground report 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 15, 2026.