Hail in Junction City Apr 23, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 60 hail signatures up to 2.5", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.25" aloft. At 2.5" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
2.5"
≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature6,827
0
none filedThe 2nd most severe storm Junction 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
- 63 /100
- Homes exposed
- 77 /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 Junction 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'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.
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.
Where Apr 23, 2026 sits in Junction City's hail record
This was Junction City's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 14 days after the Apr 9, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 17 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Junction City at 2.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 23, 2026 convective day was bigger than Junction City: the same system put hail over 703 other tracked cities, 147 of them in Kansas. Nearest: White City (7 miles south, up to 1.75"); Chapman (11 miles west, up to 2"); Dwight (11 miles east, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills from Junction City's Apr 23, 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.
No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Junction 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.
What 2.5" hail means for Junction City roofs
Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.
$82M
Potential roof exposure — 6,827 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Junction City on the live map
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17 recorded storm days in Junction City, KS
Other storms in Junction City
Jul 23, 2026
1.75"
Jul 8, 2026
1"
Jul 4, 2026
1.75"
Jul 3, 2026
1"
Jun 24, 2026
2"
Jun 13, 2026
2.25"
Jun 10, 2026
1.5"
Jun 8, 2026
1"
May 30, 2026
1.25"
May 29, 2026
May 18, 2026
3.5"
May 17, 2026
1"
Apr 26, 2026
1.75"
Apr 9, 2026
Mar 6, 2026
1"
Mar 5, 2026
1"