Hail size 1"
Corning Nemaha County
“Relayed from Emergency management. (TOP)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Soldier Mar 5, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1", and the radar-estimated size reached 0" aloft.
Largest hailstone
1"
≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
0
Ground reports
1
1 hailThe 12th most severe storm Soldier 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.
1.8 /10
- Hail size
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Soldier 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"
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
0"
Where Mar 5, 2026 sits in Soldier's hail record
This was Soldier's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 12th of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Soldier at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Mar 5, 2026 convective day was bigger than Soldier: the same system put hail over 343 other tracked cities, 110 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Havensville (6 miles southwest, up to 1"); Saint Marys (14 miles south, up to 0"); Belvue (15 miles southwest, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills from Soldier's Mar 5, 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.
Hail 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 Corning — beyond Soldier itself.
What 1" hail means for Soldier 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.
Track hail over Soldier on the live map
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Soldier hail history
← All hail in Soldier 13 recorded storm days in Soldier, KS
Other storms in Soldier
Jul 8, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 4, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 3, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 13, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 6, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 4, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
May 30, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
May 29, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 18, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 17, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 11, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 9, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
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 3, 2026.