Storm report · Pottawatomie

Hail in Wamego Jun 8, 2026

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.75" aloft.

Largest hailstone

1"

≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint

4,864

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 4th most severe storm Wamego 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.

3.3 /10
Hail size
25 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
74 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Wamego 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 radar-signature map of the hail storm over Wamego, KS on Jun 8, 2026

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 hail-size map of the storm over Wamego, KS on Jun 8, 2026

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 Jun 8, 2026 sits in Wamego's hail record

This was Wamego's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 4 days after the Jun 4, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Wamego at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jun 8, 2026 convective day was bigger than Wamego: the same system put hail over 359 other tracked cities, 173 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Belvue (5 miles east, up to 1"); Saint George (8 miles west, up to 1"); Saint Marys (14 miles east, up to 0").

These maps are stills from Wamego's Jun 8, 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.

Ground reports

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.

For this storm over Wamego, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.

Shingle-bruising hail

What 1" hail means for Wamego 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.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$58M

Potential roof exposure — 4,864 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
24 jobs
Illustrative work
~$360K
Close just 0.5% of the 4,864 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.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around June 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over Wamego on the live map

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Wamego hail history

10 recorded storm days in Wamego, KS

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Other storms in Wamego

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.