Hail in Garden City Jul 1, 2026
Hit 33 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 17 hail signatures up to 1", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.5" aloft.
1"
≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature118
0
none filedThe 10th most severe storm Garden City has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 42 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.
Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Where Jul 1, 2026 sits in Garden City's hail record
This was Garden City's 9th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Jun 30, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 10th of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Garden City at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 1, 2026 convective day was bigger than Garden City: the same system put hail over 1,147 other tracked cities, 51 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Holcomb (11 miles northwest, up to 1.75"); Deerfield (18 miles northwest, up to 1.25"); Lakin (19 miles west, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills from Garden City's Jul 1, 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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Garden City for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
What 1" hail means for Garden City roofs
Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.
$1.4M
Potential roof exposure — 118 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Garden City on the live map
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13 recorded storm days in Garden City, KS
Other storms in Garden City
Jul 23, 2026
0.5"
Jul 10, 2026
1"
Jul 3, 2026
1"
Jul 2, 2026
1.75"
Jun 30, 2026
1"
Jun 24, 2026
1.5"
Jun 22, 2026
1.25"
Jun 21, 2026
0.75"
Jun 20, 2026
2.25"
Jun 15, 2026
0.5"
Jun 9, 2026
2.5"
Jun 1, 2026
1.25"