Storm report · Saline

Hail in New Cambria May 30, 2026

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 2 hail signatures up to 1", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.75" aloft.

Largest hailstone

1"

≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint

13

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 8th most severe storm New Cambria 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.

2.1 /10
Hail size
25 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
23 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How New Cambria 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.

NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over New Cambria, KS on May 30, 2026

NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.

Max size 1" Detections 2
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over New Cambria, KS on May 30, 2026

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.

Max size 0.75"
The storm in context

Where May 30, 2026 sits in New Cambria's hail record

This was New Cambria's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 12 days after the May 18, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 8th of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over New Cambria at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The May 30, 2026 convective day was bigger than New Cambria: the same system put hail over 541 other tracked cities, 228 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Solomon (5 miles east, up to 1"); Salina (6 miles southwest, up to 1.75"); Abilene (11 miles east, up to 1").

These maps are stills from New Cambria's May 30, 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.

The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over New Cambria. 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.

Shingle-bruising hail

What 1" hail means for New Cambria roofs

Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$156K

Potential roof exposure — 13 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around May 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over New Cambria on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full New Cambria storm history — this May 30, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.

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New Cambria hail history

9 recorded storm days in New Cambria, KS

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Other storms in New Cambria

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.