/ Storm field report · Finney

Hail in Garden City · Jun 22, 2026

The estimated-size surface reached 1.25" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Garden City that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

Download on the App Store

7-day free trial in the iPhone app. No card required to start.

For iPhone. Android coming soon.

Web trial: 7 days free. Card required. $150/month after the trial unless cancelled.

Peak hail signal 1.25" ≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 905
Ground reports 0 none filed
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only

Convective day · Jun 22, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 6th most severe storm Garden City has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 3.4 / 10
Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

3.4 /10
Peak hail signal
31 /100

Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.

Homes exposed
59 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Garden City saw the hail — from two instruments

Jun 22, 2026 · Garden City, KS

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 Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Garden City, KS on Jun 22, 2026 Estimated size field

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 1.25"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 22, 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 22, 2026 sits in Garden City's hail record.

This was Garden City's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Jun 21, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 16 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Garden City at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jun 22, 2026 convective day was bigger than Garden City: the same system put hail over 258 other tracked cities, 11 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Deerfield (24 miles west, up to 0.75"); Holcomb (25 miles west, up to 1.25"); Copeland (28 miles south, up to 0.5").

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

No 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.

No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Garden City. That is common: a report depends on someone being there to see it and take the time to call it in. The radar surfaces above are the record here — the storm was detected from above even though no one on the ground logged it.

Damage-capable hail signal

What 1.25" hail means for Garden City 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

Roofing exposure

What this storm is worth to a roofer.

905 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$11M

Potential roof exposure — 905 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs
5 jobs
Illustrative work
~$75K

Close just 0.5% of the 905 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 $190 on top of the $150 plan.

Garden City hail history

16 recorded storm days in Garden City, KS
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Garden City, KS on Sep 14, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Garden City / KS

Sep 14, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Garden City, KS on Sep 9, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Garden City / KS

Sep 9, 2026

1.25"
Estimated 1.25"
3 ground reports Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Garden City, KS on Aug 15, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Garden City / KS

Aug 15, 2026

1.25"
Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Garden City, KS on Jul 23, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Garden City / KS

Jul 23, 2026

0.5"
Signatures 0.5"
1 ground report Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Garden City, KS on Jul 10, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Garden City / KS

Jul 10, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Garden City, KS on Jul 3, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Garden City / KS

Jul 3, 2026

1"
Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Garden City, KS on Jul 2, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Garden City / KS

Jul 2, 2026

1.75"
Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1.25"
2 ground reports Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Garden City, KS on Jul 1, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Garden City / KS

Jul 1, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Garden City, KS on Jun 30, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Garden City / KS

Jun 30, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Garden City, KS on Jun 24, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Garden City / KS

Jun 24, 2026

1.5"
Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Garden City, KS on Jun 21, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Garden City / KS

Jun 21, 2026

0.75"
Estimated 0.75"
8 ground reports Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Garden City, KS on Jun 20, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Garden City / KS

Jun 20, 2026

2.25"
Estimated 2.25"
2 ground reports Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Garden City, KS on Jun 15, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Garden City / KS

Jun 15, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Garden City, KS on Jun 9, 2026 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 →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Garden City, KS on Jun 1, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Garden City / KS

Jun 1, 2026

1.25"
Signatures 1.25" Estimated 1"
1 ground report Open report →

The next storm won’t wait for you.

Set your territory and alerts today. When hail hits, use Overview to choose your streets and get moving.

Download on the App Store

7-day free trial in the iPhone app. No card required to start.

For iPhone. Android coming soon.

Open this storm on the live map → Start free trial

Web trial: 7 days free. Card required. $150/month after the trial unless cancelled.

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.