Hail in Garden City Jul 8, 2026
Hit 26 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.5" aloft.
0.5"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft126
0
none filedThe 4th most severe storm Garden City has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 42 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Garden City 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'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.
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.
Where Jul 8, 2026 sits in Garden City's hail record
This was Garden City's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 21 days after the Jun 17, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Garden City at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 8, 2026 convective day was bigger than Garden City: the same system put hail over 908 other tracked cities, 55 of them in Missouri. Nearest: Creighton (7 miles south, up to 1"); Holden (9 miles northeast, up to 1"); Chilhowee (11 miles east, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Garden City's Jul 8, 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Garden City. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.
What 0.5" hail means for Garden City roofs
Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.
$1.5M
Potential roof exposure — 126 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Garden City on the live map
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