Hail size 1"
5 WNW Sharon Barber County
“(DDC)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Barber
Hail in Medicine Lodge · Oct 13, 2026
Hit 9 days ago
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.
7-day free trial in the iPhone app. No card required to start.
For iPhone. Android coming soon.
Web trial: 7 days free. Card required. $150/month after the trial unless cancelled.
Peak hail signal 1.25" ≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 403
Ground reports 1 1 hail
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Oct 13, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 4th most severe storm Medicine Lodge has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 3.4 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
3.4 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 52 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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
Oct 13, 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
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 Oct 13, 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 Oct 13, 2026 sits in Medicine Lodge's hail record.
This was Medicine Lodge's 15th recorded hail day, arriving 31 days after the Sep 12, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 15 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Medicine Lodge at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Oct 13, 2026 convective day was bigger than Medicine Lodge: the same system put hail over 183 other tracked cities, 57 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Sharon (12 miles east, up to 1.75"); Nashville (13 miles northeast, up to 1"); Kiowa (15 miles south, up to 2.25").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 15 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
1 report 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.
Hail reports
1 reportStorm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Reports came from Sharon — beyond Medicine Lodge itself.
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.
403 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$4.8M
Potential roof exposure — 403 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 403 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
October 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around October 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 $85 on top of the $150 plan.
Medicine Lodge hail history
Other storms in Medicine Lodge.
15 recorded storm days in Medicine Lodge, KS
Estimated-size surface Storm date Medicine Lodge / KS
Sep 12, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Medicine Lodge / KS
Aug 5, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Medicine Lodge / KS
Jul 11, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Medicine Lodge / KS
Jul 9, 2026
3.75" Signatures 3.75" Estimated 2"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Medicine Lodge / KS
Jun 26, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Medicine Lodge / KS
Jun 25, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Medicine Lodge / KS
Jun 21, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Medicine Lodge / KS
Jun 20, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Medicine Lodge / KS
Jun 18, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Medicine Lodge / KS
Jun 16, 2026
2.5" Estimated 2.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Medicine Lodge / KS
Jun 13, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Medicine Lodge / KS
Jun 1, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Medicine Lodge / KS
May 29, 2026
3" Signatures 3" Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Medicine Lodge / KS
Mar 10, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
1 ground report Open report →
The next storm won’t wait for you.
Set your territory and alerts today. When hail hits, use Overview to choose your streets and get moving.
7-day free trial in the iPhone app. No card required to start.
For iPhone. Android coming soon.
Web trial: 7 days free. Card required. $150/month after the trial unless cancelled.
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 Oct 14, 2026.