Hail in Garden City · Aug 15, 2026
NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0"; 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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Convective day · Aug 15, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 11th 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.
- Peak hail signal
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 40 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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
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 signature field The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.
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.
The storm in context
Where Aug 15, 2026 sits in Garden City's hail record.
This was Garden City's 14th recorded hail day, arriving 23 days after the Jul 23, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 11th of the 15 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Garden City at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Garden City: the same system put hail over 188 other tracked cities, 46 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Deerfield (19 miles west, up to 0.75"); Holcomb (20 miles west, up to 0.75"); Dighton (25 miles northeast, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 15 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
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.
Potential roof exposure
$1.2M
Potential roof exposure — 98 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Claim window
August 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around August 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 $21 on top of the $150 plan.
Garden City hail history
Other storms in Garden City.
Estimated-size surface Sep 9, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jul 23, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 10, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 3, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 2, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 1, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 30, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 24, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 22, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jun 21, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 20, 2026
2.25"
Estimated-size surface Jun 15, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 9, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 1, 2026
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