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Hail in Gove · Jun 20, 2026

The estimated-size surface reached 2.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Gove that day. At 2.5" — baseball — this is a severe hail signal associated with roof damage. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 2.5" ≈ baseball · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 1,850
Ground reports 2 2 wind
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only

Convective day · Jun 20, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The most severe storm Gove has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 5.9 / 10
Storm severity score

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

5.9 /10
Peak hail signal
63 /100

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

Homes exposed
65 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
33 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Gove saw the hail — from two instruments

Jun 20, 2026 · Gove, KS

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.

Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Gove, KS on Jun 20, 2026 Estimated size field

Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.

Max size 2.5"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 20, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Gove, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jun 20, 2026 sits in Gove's hail record.

This was Gove's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 8 days after the Jun 12, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Gove at 2.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jun 20, 2026 convective day was bigger than Gove: the same system put hail over 298 other tracked cities, 121 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Grinnell (13 miles northwest, up to 2.5"); Quinter (15 miles northeast, up to 1.25"); Grainfield (17 miles north, up to 2.75").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 8 Gove 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 70 mph
3 W Gove Gove County

“Report via Text Line. (GLD)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 66 mph
6 NNW Gove Gove County

“Weatherlink site 6.4 NNW Gove measured 66 mph gust. (GLD)”

— 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 50 minutes, from to .

Severe hail signal

What 2.5" hail means for Gove roofs.

Two-inch-plus hail is capable of puncturing shingles, breaking skylights or windows, and heavily denting soft materials. The strongest radar bands warrant prompt inspection, but neither the signal nor the footprint confirms damage at a specific address.

Radar reading · not confirmed damage

Roofing exposure

What this storm is worth to a roofer.

1,850 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$22M

Potential roof exposure — 1,850 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs
9 jobs
Illustrative work
~$135K

Close just 0.5% of the 1,850 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 $389 on top of the $150 plan.

Gove hail history

8 recorded storm days in Gove, KS

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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 Aug 14, 2026.