Hail in Mc Donald Jul 1, 2026
Hit 33 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.5" aloft.
0.5"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft0
0
none filedThe 7th most severe storm Mc Donald 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
- 13 /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 Mc Donald 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 1, 2026 sits in Mc Donald's hail record
This was Mc Donald's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 11 days after the Jun 20, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 7th of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Mc Donald at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 1, 2026 convective day was bigger than Mc Donald: the same system put hail over 1,147 other tracked cities, 51 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Bird City (15 miles southwest, up to 1.25"); Trenton (17 miles northeast, up to 0"); Ludell (19 miles east, up to 0").
These maps are stills from Mc Donald's Jul 1, 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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Mc Donald for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
What 0.5" hail means for Mc Donald 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 Mc Donald on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Mc Donald storm history — this Jul 1, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.
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9 recorded storm days in Mc Donald, KS
Other storms in Mc Donald
Jul 28, 2026
Jul 27, 2026
2.25"
Jul 9, 2026
2.5"
Jul 8, 2026
1"
Jul 3, 2026
1"
Jul 2, 2026
Jun 20, 2026
2"
May 29, 2026
2.5"