Storm report · Sedgwick

Hail in Wichita Apr 23, 2026

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1.75", and the radar-estimated size reached 1" aloft.

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Largest hailstone

1.75"

≈ golf ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature

Homes in the hail footprint

21,154

Ground reports

2 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: 44 /100
Homes exposed: 87 /100
Ground truth: 33 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Wichita saw the hail — from two instruments

Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.

NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Wichita, KS on Apr 23, 2026 — The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.

Max size 1.75" Detections 0

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Wichita, KS on Apr 23, 2026 — Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.

Max size 1"

The storm in context

Where Apr 23, 2026 sits in Wichita's hail record

This was Wichita's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 6 days after the Apr 17, 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 1.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Apr 23, 2026 convective day was bigger than Wichita: the same system put hail over 703 other tracked cities, 147 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Valley Center (15 miles northeast, up to 1.75"); Sedgwick (16 miles northeast, up to 1.75"); Newton (21 miles north, up to 3.5").

These maps are stills from Wichita's Apr 23, 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

2 reports

Hail size 1"

Andover Butler County

1:15 AM UTC

“(ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 1.25"

5 NNW Benton Butler County

12:55 AM UTC

“Delayed report. Relayed via NWS employee. (ICT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Storm forensics

How the storm moved

Hail was reported over 20 minutes, from 12:55 AM UTC to 1:15 AM UTC .

Reports came from Andover and Benton — beyond Wichita itself.

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

Widespread claimable damage

What 1.75" hail means for Wichita 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

$254M

Potential roof exposure — 21,154 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs

106 jobs

Illustrative work

~$1.6M

Close just 0.5% of the 21,154 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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