Hail in Medicine Lodge · Sep 12, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" 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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Convective day · Sep 12, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 14th 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.
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Medicine Lodge saw the hail — from two instruments
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 12, 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 Sep 12, 2026 sits in Medicine Lodge's hail record.
This was Medicine Lodge's 14th recorded hail day, arriving 38 days after the Aug 5, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 14th of the 14 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Medicine Lodge at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Sep 12, 2026 convective day was bigger than Medicine Lodge: the same system put hail over 354 other tracked cities, 113 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Isabel (14 miles north, up to 0.5"); Zenda (15 miles northeast, up to 2.5"); Nashville (15 miles north, up to 0.5").
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
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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Medicine Lodge. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Medicine Lodge roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Medicine Lodge hail history
Other storms in Medicine Lodge.
Estimated-size surface Aug 5, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 11, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 9, 2026
3.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 26, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 25, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 21, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jun 20, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jun 18, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jun 16, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 13, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 1, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface May 29, 2026
3"
Estimated-size surface Mar 10, 2026
0.75"Take your next area into the field.
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