Storm report · Sedgwick

Hail in Wichita Apr 3, 2026

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 19 hail signatures up to 2", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.75" aloft. At 2" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

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Largest hailstone

≈ tennis ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature

Homes in the hail footprint

12,020

Ground reports

1 hail

Severity

The 5th 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.

5.3 /10

Hail size: 50 /100
Homes exposed: 82 /100
Ground truth: 17 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Wichita 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-signature map of the hail storm over Wichita, KS on Apr 3, 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 2" Detections 19

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Wichita, KS on Apr 3, 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 Apr 3, 2026 sits in Wichita's hail record

This was Wichita's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 24 days after the Mar 10, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 17 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Wichita at 2" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Apr 3, 2026 convective day was bigger than Wichita: the same system put hail over 367 other tracked cities, 53 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Derby (18 miles southeast, up to 1.75"); Peck (21 miles south, up to 1"); Newton (21 miles north, up to 0.75").

These maps are stills from Wichita's Apr 3, 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

1 report

Hail size 1"

3 W Andover Sedgwick County

8:01 PM UTC

“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Storm forensics

How the storm moved

Reports came from Andover — beyond Wichita itself.

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

Severe, roof-replacing hail

What 2" hail means for Wichita roofs

Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$144M

Potential roof exposure — 12,020 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs

60 jobs

Illustrative work

~$900K

Close just 0.5% of the 12,020 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 April 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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