Wind gust 60 mph
1 E Garden City Finney County
“(DDC)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Garden City Jul 2, 2026
Hit 32 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 21 hail signatures up to 1.75", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.25" aloft.
Largest hailstone
1.75"
≈ golf ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
83
Ground reports
2
2 windThe 4th 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.
4.1 /10
- Hail size
- 44 /100
- Homes exposed
- 38 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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
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
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
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"
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 13 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: Holcomb (11 miles northwest, up to 1.75"); Sublette (15 miles south, up to 1.75"); Ingalls (18 miles southeast, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills from Garden City's Jul 2, 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
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
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Hail was reported over 58 minutes, from to .
What 1.75" hail means for Garden City roofs
At an inch and a half, hail cracks shingles, strips granules down to the mat, and dents gutters, vents, and siding. A footprint like this typically produces a wave of insurance claims — and the contractor who reaches the homeowner first usually gets the inspection.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$996K
Potential roof exposure — 83 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage. 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.
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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 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 21, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
8
ground reports 
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.