Wind gust 60 mph
Cottonwood Falls Chase County
“Reports to KVOE radio of 60 mph winds with many branches down in the city. (ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Chase
Hail in Strong City · Jul 4, 2026
NEXRAD logged 23 hail signatures up to 1.25"; the estimated-size surface reached 0.75" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1.25" ≈ half-dollar · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint 229
Ground reports 1 1 wind
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size
Convective day · Jul 4, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 6th most severe storm Strong City has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 3.3 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
3.3 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 47 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Strong City saw the hail — from two instruments
Jul 4, 2026 · Strong City, 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.
NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
Radar signature field 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
1.25"
Detections
23
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
0.75"
The storm in context
Where Jul 4, 2026 sits in Strong City's hail record.
This was Strong City's 10th recorded hail day, arriving 21 days after the Jun 13, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Strong City at 1.25" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 4, 2026 convective day was bigger than Strong City: the same system put hail over 2,035 other tracked cities, 132 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Emporia (14 miles east, up to 1.75"); Elmdale (17 miles west, up to 1.25"); Americus (18 miles northeast, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 10 Strong City 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
1 report 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
1 reportStorm 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 Cottonwood Falls — beyond Strong City itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1.25" hail means for Strong City 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.
229 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$2.7M
Potential roof exposure — 229 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 229 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
July 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 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 $48 on top of the $150 plan.
Strong City hail history
Other storms in Strong City.
10 recorded storm days in Strong City, KS
Estimated-size surface Storm date Strong City / KS
Jun 13, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Strong City / KS
Jun 10, 2026
2" Estimated 2"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Strong City / KS
May 31, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Strong City / KS
May 30, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Strong City / KS
May 4, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Strong City / KS
Apr 17, 2026
2" Signatures 2" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Strong City / KS
Apr 13, 2026
2" Signatures 2" Estimated 1"
2 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Strong City / KS
Apr 3, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
NEXRAD surface Storm date Strong City / KS
Mar 5, 2026
No ground reports filed Open report →
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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 Aug 3, 2026.