Tornado Rating unknown
6 NE Valley Center Sedgwick County
“[Landspout] (ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Sedgwick Apr 23, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1.75", and the radar-estimated size reached 1" aloft.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm — see the ground reports below.
Largest hailstone
1.75"
≈ golf ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
127
Ground reports
1
1 tornadoThe 4th most severe storm Sedgwick 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.
4.2 /10
- Hail size
- 44 /100
- Homes exposed
- 42 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Sedgwick 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'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
1.75"
Detections
0
Radar-estimated hail size
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"
Where Apr 23, 2026 sits in Sedgwick's hail record
This was Sedgwick's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 6 days after the Apr 17, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Sedgwick at 1.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 23, 2026 convective day was bigger than Sedgwick: the same system put hail over 703 other tracked cities, 147 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Valley Center (4 miles southeast, up to 1.75"); Newton (7 miles north, up to 3.5"); Whitewater (14 miles east, up to 2.5").
These maps are stills from Sedgwick's Apr 23, 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.
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.
Tornado reports
1 report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Reports came from Valley Center — beyond Sedgwick itself.
What 1.75" hail means for Sedgwick roofs
At an inch and a half, hail cracks shingles, strips granules down to the mat, and dents gutters, vents, and siding. A footprint like this typically produces a wave of insurance claims — and the contractor who reaches the homeowner first usually gets the inspection.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$1.5M
Potential roof exposure — 127 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
1 job
Illustrative work
~$15K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around April 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
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Sedgwick hail history
← All hail in Sedgwick 8 recorded storm days in Sedgwick, KS
Other storms in Sedgwick
Jun 25, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 30, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.75"
4
ground reports 
May 18, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 17, 2026
2.75" Signatures 2.75" Estimated 1.25"
1
ground report 
Apr 11, 2026
3.25" Signatures 3.25" Estimated 1.5"
3
ground reports 
Mar 10, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 6, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed
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 2, 2026.