Storm report · Meade

Hail in Meade Jun 21, 2026

Hit 43 days ago

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Meade this day. At 2" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

Largest hailstone

2"

≈ tennis ball · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

1,818

Ground reports

5

5 wind
Severity

The most severe storm Meade 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.

5.9 /10
Hail size
50 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
65 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
83 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Meade 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.

Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Meade, KS on Jun 21, 2026

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"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 21, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Meade, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jun 21, 2026 sits in Meade's hail record

This was Meade's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 9 days after the Jun 12, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Meade at 2" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jun 21, 2026 convective day was bigger than Meade: the same system put hail over 415 other tracked cities, 74 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Fowler (13 miles northeast, up to 2"); Plains (19 miles northwest, up to 1.25"); Gate (20 miles southeast, up to 1.75").

These maps are stills from Meade'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.

Ground reports

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

5 reports
Wind gust 65 mph
8 SSE Meade State Park Meade County

“Meade KS mesonet station. (DDC)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 62 mph
6 SSW Minneola Clark County

“Personal weather station. (DDC)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 58 mph
3 WSW Minneola Clark County

“UP367 observations. (DDC)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 64 mph
2 SSW Missler Meade County

“Davis Weatherlink - personal weather station. (DDC)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 63 mph
3 SW Fowler Meade County

“UP367 observation. (DDC)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics

How the storm moved

The storm tracked south at roughly 30 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.

Hail was reported over 33 minutes, from to .

Reports came from Meade State Park, Minneola, Missler, and Fowler — beyond Meade itself.

Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Severe, roof-replacing hail

What 2" hail means for Meade 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.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$22M

Potential roof exposure — 1,818 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 1,818 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.
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 Meade on the live map

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Meade hail history

11 recorded storm days in Meade, KS

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Other storms in Meade

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.