Kansas was hit as recently as 2026-07-23, 8 days ago. NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 1,050 separate hail days in Kansas since 2010, across 11,742 individual storm reports. 379 of those days brought hail 2 inches or larger, and the largest stone on record is 6 inches on 2011-05-24 near Timken, Rush.
Kansas sits in the heart of hail alley. Wichita and the Kansas City metro see frequent supercell hail from April through June. Pick a date below to see the NOAA radar swath and reports, or check a specific address.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Kansas. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
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See call-center options ->Kansas averages 62 reported hail days a year across 17 years of NOAA archive, about 22 of them carrying hail 2″ or larger -- the size that routinely totals roofs. Major metros watched here: Wichita, Kansas City, Topeka, Overland Park.
Kansas's busiest hail month is May, with 210 of its 1,050 hail days on record. April through August holds 851 of them, 81% of the record.
| Month | Hail days since 2010 |
|---|---|
| February | 8 |
| March | 53 |
| April | 128 |
| May | 210 |
| June | 209 |
| July | 158 |
| August | 146 |
| September | 90 |
| October | 36 |
| November | 10 |
| December | 2 |
| County | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Sedgwick | 114 | 4.25″ |
| Sherman | 99 | 3.00″ |
| Ford | 98 | 5.00″ |
| Butler | 91 | 3.00″ |
| Logan | 83 | 4.25″ |
| Rawlins | 77 | 4.00″ |
105 Kansas counties have at least 13 NOAA hail days on record since 2010 -- enough archive signal for a page of their own. Ordered by hail days.
Sedgwick County · Sherman County · Ford County · Butler County · Logan County · Rawlins County · Thomas County · Cheyenne County · Ellis County · Trego County · Barton County · Reno County · Cowley County · Rush County · Shawnee County · McPherson County · Ness County · Dickinson County · Johnson County · Scott County · Gray County · Phillips County · Hodgeman County · Jewell County · Osborne County · Stanton County · Gove County · Ottawa County · Pawnee County · Russell County · Sumner County · Lyon County · Rooks County · Sheridan County · Wallace County · Finney County · Lincoln County · Cherokee County · Hamilton County · Riley County · Cloud County · Ellsworth County · Kearny County · Montgomery County · Morton County · Rice County · Clark County · Harvey County · Kingman County · Comanche County · Meade County · Osage County · Pottawatomie County · Pratt County · Decatur County · Stafford County · Wabaunsee County · Marion County · Washington County · Wichita County · Edwards County · Grant County · Marshall County · Mitchell County · Norton County · Saline County · Graham County · Greenwood County · Stevens County · Kiowa County · Morris County · Smith County · Barber County · Haskell County · Jackson County · Leavenworth County · Crawford County · Geary County · Seward County · Coffey County · Labette County · Lane County · Franklin County · Jefferson County · Nemaha County · Greeley County · Clay County · Harper County · Republic County · Douglas County · Chase County · Chautauqua County · Wilson County · Allen County · Neosho County · Anderson County · Bourbon County · Wyandotte County · Brown County · Atchison County · Linn County · Miami County · Woodson County · Elk County · Doniphan County
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-07-10 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2026-07-09 | 1.75″ | 6 |
| 2026-07-04 | 2.25″ | 5 |
| 2026-07-03 | 2.00″ | 6 |
| 2026-07-02 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2026-06-25 | 1.25″ | 5 |
| 2026-06-21 | 1.75″ | 6 |
The colored swath is NOAA's MRMS radar estimate of the largest hail in each ~1 km cell; the dots are individual SPC ground reports. Yellow is around an inch, red is 1.5 to 2″, and purple is 2″ and up -- see how hail size maps to roof damage. Click any spot on the map to see the hail history at that point, or look up a full street address on the hail history by address tool. Today's nationwide activity is on today's hail report.
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.