Hail in Medicine Lodge Jun 16, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Medicine Lodge this day. At 2.5" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
2.5"
≈ baseball · radar-estimated size aloft272
0
none filedThe 2nd most severe storm Medicine Lodge 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
- 49 /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 Medicine Lodge 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 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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 16, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Medicine Lodge, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jun 16, 2026 sits in Medicine Lodge's hail record
This was Medicine Lodge's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 3 days after the Jun 13, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 12 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Medicine Lodge at 2.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 16, 2026 convective day was bigger than Medicine Lodge: the same system put hail over 225 other tracked cities, 30 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Pratt (22 miles north, up to 3"); Coats (31 miles northwest, up to 2.75"); Byers (41 miles northwest, up to 3.5").
These maps are stills from Medicine Lodge's Jun 16, 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 Medicine Lodge. 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 Medicine Lodge 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.
$3.3M
Potential roof exposure — 272 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Medicine Lodge on the live map
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12 recorded storm days in Medicine Lodge, KS
Other storms in Medicine Lodge
Jul 11, 2026
1"
Jul 9, 2026
3.75"
Jun 26, 2026
1"
Jun 25, 2026
0.5"
Jun 21, 2026
1.25"
Jun 20, 2026
1.25"
Jun 18, 2026
1.25"
Jun 13, 2026
0.5"
Jun 1, 2026
1"
May 29, 2026
3"
Mar 10, 2026
0.75"