Wind gust 66 mph
4 SSW Kismet Seward County
“UR350 observation. (DDC)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Liberal Jun 21, 2026
Hit 43 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Liberal this day.
Largest hailstone
1.5"
≈ ping-pong ball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
9,567
Ground reports
3
3 windThe most severe storm Liberal 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.
5.0 /10
- Hail size
- 38 /100
- Homes exposed
- 80 /100
- Ground truth
- 50 /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 Liberal 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.
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
1.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 21, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Liberal, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jun 21, 2026 sits in Liberal's hail record
This was Liberal's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 8 days after the Jun 13, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Liberal at 1.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 21, 2026 convective day was bigger than Liberal: the same system put hail over 415 other tracked cities, 74 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Turpin (7 miles south, up to 0.5"); Kismet (15 miles north, up to 1.5"); Forgan (20 miles east, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Liberal's Jun 21, 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
3 reports Wind gust 60 mph
1 WSW Hayne Seward County
“UR407 observation. (DDC)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 61 mph
4 SW Liberal Seward County
“Davis Weatherlink - personal weather station. (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 25 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Kismet and Hayne — beyond Liberal itself.
What 1.5" hail means for Liberal 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
$115M
Potential roof exposure — 9,567 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
48 jobs
Illustrative work
~$720K
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.
Track hail over Liberal on the live map
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Liberal hail history
← All hail in Liberal 9 recorded storm days in Liberal, KS
Other storms in Liberal
Jul 23, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 3, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 26, 2026
Jun 13, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 12, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 3, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
May 21, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 8, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed
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.