Hail in Kensington Jul 3, 2026
Hit 31 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0", and the radar-estimated size reached 0" aloft.
0"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft0
0
none filedThe 9th most severe storm Kensington 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
- 0 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /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 Kensington saw the hail — from two instruments
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.
NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.
Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Where Jul 3, 2026 sits in Kensington's hail record
This was Kensington's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the Jul 1, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 9th of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Kensington at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 3, 2026 convective day was bigger than Kensington: the same system put hail over 1,885 other tracked cities, 175 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Smith Center (8 miles east, up to 1"); Lebanon (16 miles east, up to 1"); Portis (25 miles southeast, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Kensington's Jul 3, 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Kensington. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.
What 0" hail means for Kensington roofs
Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.
Track hail over Kensington on the live map
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9 recorded storm days in Kensington, KS
Other storms in Kensington
Jul 30, 2026
1.75"
Jul 27, 2026
1"
Jul 1, 2026
1.75"
Jun 19, 2026
1"
Jun 8, 2026
1.5"
May 30, 2026
0.75"
May 16, 2026
1.75"
Apr 10, 2026
1"