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Hail in Medicine Lodge · Jun 21, 2026

The estimated-size surface reached 1.25" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Medicine Lodge that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 1.25" ≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 394
Ground reports 0 none filed
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only

Convective day · Jun 21, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 5th most severe storm Medicine Lodge has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 3.2 / 10
Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

3.2 /10
Peak hail signal
31 /100

Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.

Homes exposed
52 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Medicine Lodge saw the hail — from two instruments

Jun 21, 2026 · Medicine Lodge, KS

Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.

Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Medicine Lodge, KS on Jun 21, 2026 Estimated size field

Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.

Max size 1.25"

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

The storm in context

Where Jun 21, 2026 sits in Medicine Lodge's hail record.

This was Medicine Lodge's 8th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Jun 20, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 14 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Medicine Lodge at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jun 21, 2026 convective day was bigger than Medicine Lodge: the same system put hail over 415 other tracked cities, 74 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Sharon (7 miles south, up to 0.5"); Isabel (14 miles north, up to 1.25"); Nashville (15 miles north, up to 1.25").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 14 Medicine Lodge storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.

Ground reports

What people on the ground reported

No reports filed with the NWS

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 Medicine Lodge 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.

Damage-capable hail signal

What 1.25" hail means for Medicine Lodge roofs.

Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.

Radar reading · not confirmed damage

Roofing exposure

What this storm is worth to a roofer.

394 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$4.7M

Potential roof exposure — 394 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs
2 jobs
Illustrative work
~$30K

Close just 0.5% of the 394 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.

Claim window

June 2028

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.

Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $83 on top of the $150 plan.

Medicine Lodge hail history

14 recorded storm days in Medicine Lodge, KS
Map unavailable
NEXRAD surface
Storm date Medicine Lodge / KS

Sep 12, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Medicine Lodge, KS on Aug 5, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Medicine Lodge / KS

Aug 5, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Medicine Lodge, KS on Jul 11, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Medicine Lodge / KS

Jul 11, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Medicine Lodge, KS on Jul 9, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Medicine Lodge / KS

Jul 9, 2026

3.75"
Signatures 3.75" Estimated 2"
1 ground report Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Medicine Lodge, KS on Jun 26, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Medicine Lodge / KS

Jun 26, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Medicine Lodge, KS on Jun 25, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Medicine Lodge / KS

Jun 25, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Medicine Lodge, KS on Jun 20, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Medicine Lodge / KS

Jun 20, 2026

1.25"
Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Medicine Lodge, KS on Jun 18, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Medicine Lodge / KS

Jun 18, 2026

1.25"
Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Medicine Lodge, KS on Jun 16, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Medicine Lodge / KS

Jun 16, 2026

2.5"
Estimated 2.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Medicine Lodge, KS on Jun 13, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Medicine Lodge / KS

Jun 13, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
1 ground report Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Medicine Lodge, KS on Jun 1, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Medicine Lodge / KS

Jun 1, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Medicine Lodge, KS on May 29, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Medicine Lodge / KS

May 29, 2026

3"
Signatures 3" Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Medicine Lodge, KS on Mar 10, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Medicine Lodge / KS

Mar 10, 2026

0.75"
Estimated 0.75"
1 ground report Open report →

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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Sep 13, 2026.