Wind gust 70 mph
1 W Toulon Ellis County
“AWOS station KHYS Hays Regional Airport Awos Site. (DDC)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Ellis
Hail in Victoria · Jul 9, 2026
NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0"; the estimated-size surface reached 0" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 0" ≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 0
Ground reports 1 1 wind
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size
Convective day · Jul 9, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 5th most severe storm Victoria has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 0.2 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
0.2 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 0 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /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 Victoria saw the hail — from two instruments
Jul 9, 2026 · Victoria, 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
0"
Detections
0
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"
The storm in context
Where Jul 9, 2026 sits in Victoria's hail record.
This was Victoria's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 30 days after the Jun 9, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Victoria at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 9, 2026 convective day was bigger than Victoria: the same system put hail over 944 other tracked cities, 120 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Hays (9 miles southwest, up to 1"); Ellis (22 miles west, up to 1.75"); Mc Cracken (23 miles southwest, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 6 Victoria 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 Toulon — beyond Victoria itself.
Below the severe threshold
What 0" hail means for Victoria roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Victoria hail history
Other storms in Victoria.
6 recorded storm days in Victoria, KS
Estimated-size surface Storm date Victoria / KS
Jun 9, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Victoria / KS
Jun 8, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.75"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Victoria / KS
May 30, 2026
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Victoria / KS
Apr 26, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Victoria / KS
Apr 8, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
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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.