Hail size 1.5"
3 E Mayfield Sumner County
“Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). (ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Wellington May 18, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Wellington this day.
Largest hailstone
1.75"
≈ golf ball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
6,716
Ground reports
3
3 hailThe 2nd most severe storm Wellington 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.
5.3 /10
- Hail size
- 44 /100
- Homes exposed
- 77 /100
- Ground truth
- 50 /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 Wellington 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.
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
1.75"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for May 18, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Wellington, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where May 18, 2026 sits in Wellington's hail record
This was Wellington's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 25 days after the Apr 23, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Wellington at 1.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The May 18, 2026 convective day was bigger than Wellington: the same system put hail over 726 other tracked cities, 258 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Mayfield (9 miles northwest, up to 1.75"); Peck (10 miles north, up to 1"); Oxford (12 miles east, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Wellington's May 18, 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
3 reports Hail size 1"
Wellington Sumner County
“(ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
4 E Wellington Sumner County
“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm 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 Mayfield — beyond Wellington itself.
What 1.75" hail means for Wellington roofs
At an inch and a half, hail cracks shingles, strips granules down to the mat, and dents gutters, vents, and siding. A footprint like this typically produces a wave of insurance claims — and the contractor who reaches the homeowner first usually gets the inspection.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$81M
Potential roof exposure — 6,716 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
34 jobs
Illustrative work
~$510K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around May 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Wellington on the live map
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Wellington hail history
← All hail in Wellington 13 recorded storm days in Wellington, KS
Other storms in Wellington
Jul 11, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 4, 2026
2" Signatures 2" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 25, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 21, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 18, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 4, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 30, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 23, 2026
2" Signatures 2" Estimated 0.75"
2
ground reports 
Apr 17, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1"
1
ground report 
Apr 3, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 5, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
1
ground report 
Mar 1, 2026
0.5" Signatures 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.