Wind gust 60 mph
1 E Garden City Finney County
“(DDC)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Finney
Hail in Garden City · Jul 2, 2026
NEXRAD logged 21 hail signatures up to 1.75"; the estimated-size surface reached 1.25" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1.75" ≈ golf ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint 83
Ground reports 2 2 wind
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size
Convective day · Jul 2, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 4th most severe storm Garden City has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 4.1 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
4.1 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 44 /100
- Homes exposed
- 38 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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
Jul 2, 2026 · Garden City, KS
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.
NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
Radar signature field NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.
Max size
1.75"
Detections
21
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field 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
1.25"
The storm in context
Where Jul 2, 2026 sits in Garden City's hail record.
This was Garden City's 10th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Jul 1, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 16 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Garden City at 1.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 2, 2026 convective day was bigger than Garden City: the same system put hail over 1,147 other tracked cities, 20 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Ingalls (13 miles southeast, up to 1.75"); Cimarron (23 miles east, up to 1"); Deerfield (24 miles west, up to 1.25").
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
2 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
2 reports Wind gust 64 mph
1 SSW Garden City Finney County
“Garden City Co-Op station measured. (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.
Hail was reported over 58 minutes, from to .
High damage potential
What 1.75" hail means for Garden City roofs.
Hail around an inch and a half is capable of cracking shingles, stripping granules, and denting gutters, vents, and siding. Risk is usually greatest near the strongest radar signal, but property-level damage still requires an on-site inspection.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
83 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$996K
Potential roof exposure — 83 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Claim window
July 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 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 $17 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 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 21, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
8 ground reports 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.