Wind gust 64 mph
2 SSW Missler Meade County
“Davis Weatherlink - personal weather station. (DDC)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Meade
Hail in Plains · Jun 21, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 1.25" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Plains 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 221
Ground reports 3 3 wind
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Jun 21, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The most severe storm Plains has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 3.8 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
3.8 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 47 /100
- Ground truth
- 50 /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 Plains saw the hail — from two instruments
Jun 21, 2026 · Plains, KS
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 hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field 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
1.25"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 21, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Plains, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Jun 21, 2026 sits in Plains's hail record.
This was Plains's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 9 days after the Jun 12, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Plains at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 21, 2026 convective day was bigger than Plains: the same system put hail over 415 other tracked cities, 74 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Montezuma (15 miles north, up to 1"); Kismet (17 miles southwest, up to 1.5"); Meade (19 miles southeast, up to 2").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 8 Plains 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
3 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.
Wind reports
3 reports Wind gust 59 mph
1 NNE Plains City Meade County
“Davis Weatherlink - personal weather station. (DDC)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 72 mph
1 NE Plains City Meade County
“Davis Weatherlink - personal weather station. (DDC)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm 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.
Hail was reported over 10 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Missler and Plains City — beyond Plains itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1.25" hail means for Plains 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.
221 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$2.7M
Potential roof exposure — 221 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 1 job
- Illustrative work
- ~$15K
Close just 0.5% of the 221 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 $46 on top of the $150 plan.
Plains hail history
Other storms in Plains.
8 recorded storm days in Plains, KS
Estimated-size surface Storm date Plains / KS
Aug 6, 2026
1.5" Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Plains / KS
Jun 26, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Plains / KS
Jun 23, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Plains / KS
Jun 22, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Plains / KS
Jun 12, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Plains / KS
Jun 9, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Plains / KS
Apr 9, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
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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 Aug 7, 2026.