Hail size 1"
3 N East Wichita Sedgwick County
“(ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Sedgwick
Hail in Wichita · Mar 10, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 1" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Wichita that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1" ≈ quarter · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 90,898
Ground reports 7 3 hail · 4 wind
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Mar 10, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 4th most severe storm Wichita has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 5.5 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
5.5 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 99 /100
- Ground truth
- 100 /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 Wichita saw the hail — from two instruments
Mar 10, 2026 · Wichita, KS
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 Surface resolved
Estimated size field 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 20 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: Mulvane (7 miles south, up to 0.5"); Peck (9 miles southwest, up to 0.75"); Clearwater (13 miles southwest, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 20 Wichita 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
7 reports 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.
Hail reports
3 reports Hail size 1"
5 WNW Benton Sedgwick County
“(ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
1 NW Park City Sedgwick County
“(ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind reports
4 reports Wind gust 58 mph
1 NNE Mcconnell Air For Sedgwick County
“(ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 62 mph
3 NE East Wichita Sedgwick County
“KAKE relayed measured wind gust at Webb & 13th. (ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 60 mph
4 SSE Maize Sedgwick County
“Estimated 50 to 60 mph winds at 21st and Ridge. (ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 60 mph
3 SSW Maize Sedgwick County
“Wind along with dime sized hail. (ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm 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.
The storm tracked northeast at roughly 30 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.
Hail was reported over 32 minutes, from to .
Reports came from East Wichita, Benton, Park City, Mcconnell Air For, and Maize — beyond Wichita itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Wichita 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.
90,898 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$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.
Claim window
March 2028
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.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $19,089 on top of the $150 plan.
Wichita hail history
Other storms in Wichita.
20 recorded storm days in Wichita, KS
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita / KS
Aug 26, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita / KS
Aug 20, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita / KS
Aug 6, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita / KS
Jul 10, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita / KS
Jun 25, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.25"
2 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita / KS
Jun 21, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita / KS
Jun 20, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita / KS
Jun 18, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita / KS
Jun 17, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita / KS
Jun 13, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
3 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita / KS
Jun 4, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita / KS
May 30, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita / KS
May 18, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
4 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita / KS
May 4, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1.25"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita / KS
Apr 25, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1"
10 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita / KS
Apr 23, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
2 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita / KS
Apr 17, 2026
2.25" Signatures 2.25" Estimated 1.25"
8 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita / KS
Apr 3, 2026
2" Signatures 2" Estimated 0.75"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Wichita / KS
Mar 3, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
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 27, 2026.