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Hail in Shawnee · Sep 6, 2026

Hit 6 days ago

The estimated-size surface reached 1.25" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Shawnee 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 6,617
Ground reports 2 2 hail
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only

Convective day · Sep 6, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 4th most severe storm Shawnee has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 4.3 / 10
Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

4.3 /10
Peak hail signal
31 /100

Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.

Homes exposed
76 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
33 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Shawnee saw the hail — from two instruments

Sep 6, 2026 · Shawnee, 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
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Shawnee, KS on Sep 6, 2026 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 Sep 6, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Shawnee, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Sep 6, 2026 sits in Shawnee's hail record.

This was Shawnee's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 16 days after the Aug 21, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Shawnee at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Sep 6, 2026 convective day was bigger than Shawnee: the same system put hail over 608 other tracked cities, 10 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Kansas City (12 miles northeast, up to 1"); Leavenworth (15 miles north, up to 0.5"); Kansas City (19 miles east, up to 1").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 7 Shawnee 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

2 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.

Hail reports

2 reports
Hail size 1"
2 E Bonner Springs Johnson County

“Public reported quarter hail. Also receive mPing for quarters in similar area. (EAX)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
2 SE Bonner Springs Johnson County

“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (EAX)”

— 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.

Reports came from Bonner Springs — beyond Shawnee itself.

Damage-capable hail signal

What 1.25" hail means for Shawnee 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.

6,617 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$79M

Potential roof exposure — 6,617 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs
33 jobs
Illustrative work
~$495K

Close just 0.5% of the 6,617 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

September 2028

Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around September 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 $1,390 on top of the $150 plan.

Shawnee hail history

7 recorded storm days in Shawnee, KS

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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 Sep 7, 2026.