Storm report · Sedgwick

Hail in Wichita Mar 10, 2026

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Wichita this day.

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Largest hailstone

≈ quarter · radar-estimated size aloft

Homes in the hail footprint

90,898

Ground reports

3 hail · 4 wind

Severity

The 4th most severe storm Wichita 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.

5.5 /10

Hail size: 25 /100
Homes exposed: 99 /100
Ground truth: 100 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Wichita saw the hail — from two instruments

The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Wichita, KS on Mar 10, 2026 — The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.

Max size 1"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Mar 10, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Wichita, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Mar 10, 2026 sits in Wichita's hail record

This was Wichita's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 7 days after the Mar 3, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 17 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Wichita at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Mar 10, 2026 convective day was bigger than Wichita: the same system put hail over 470 other tracked cities, 68 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Goddard (6 miles southwest, up to 1.25"); Colwich (7 miles north, up to 1"); Clearwater (10 miles south, up to 0.75").

These maps are stills from Wichita's Mar 10, 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.

Hail reports

3 reports

Hail size 1"

3 N East Wichita Sedgwick County

1:36 AM UTC

“(ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 1"

5 WNW Benton Sedgwick County

1:42 AM UTC

“(ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 1"

1 NW Park City Sedgwick County

1:27 AM UTC

“(ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Wind reports

4 reports

Wind gust 58 mph

1 NNE Mcconnell Air For Sedgwick County

1:25 AM UTC

“(ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Wind gust 62 mph

3 NE East Wichita Sedgwick County

1:28 AM UTC

“KAKE relayed measured wind gust at Webb & 13th. (ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Wind gust 60 mph

4 SSE Maize Sedgwick County

1:10 AM UTC

“Estimated 50 to 60 mph winds at 21st and Ridge. (ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Wind gust 60 mph

3 SSW Maize Sedgwick County

1:11 AM UTC

“Wind along with dime sized hail. (ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Storm forensics

How the storm moved

The storm tracked northeast at roughly 30 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.

Hail was reported over 32 minutes, from 1:10 AM UTC to 1:42 AM UTC .

Reports came from East Wichita, Benton, Park City, Mcconnell Air For, and Maize — beyond Wichita itself.

Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.

Shingle-bruising hail

What 1" hail means for Wichita 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

$1.1B

Potential roof exposure — 90,898 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs

454 jobs

Illustrative work

~$6.8M

Close just 0.5% of the 90,898 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 March 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

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Wichita hail history

17 recorded storm days in Wichita, KS

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