Kansas hail history
2,447
Days with hail on record, statewide
1,983
Days at 1.00″ or more
7.75in
Largest on record, Sep 2010
64
Cities with hail on record nearby
Hail by city in Kansas
Ranked by days with hail on record within 10 miles of each city's centre, then by population. Every place of five thousand people or more has a page; the busiest are listed here and the rest are a disclosure away.
- 01 Wichita 222 days 7.75″
- 02 Haysville 210 days 7.75″
- 03 Bel Aire 209 days 4.50″
- 04 Maize 202 days 7.75″
- 05 Park City 199 days 4.50″
- 06 Andover 194 days 5.00″
- 07 Valley Center 186 days 4.50″
- 08 Derby 176 days 5.00″
- 09 Roeland Park 163 days 3.00″
- 10 Mission 158 days 3.00″
- 11 Overland Park 156 days 3.00″
- 12 Augusta 155 days 2.75″
- 13 Mulvane 155 days 5.00″
- 14 Shawnee 154 days 3.50″
- 15 Lenexa 154 days 3.50″
- 16 Prairie Village 153 days 3.00″
- 17 Goddard 153 days 7.75″
- 18 Merriam 152 days 3.50″
- 19 Kansas City 151 days 4.50″
- 20 Topeka 146 days 5.25″
- 21 Leawood 144 days 3.00″
- 22 Dodge City 143 days 5.00″
- 23 Olathe 136 days 2.85″
- 24 Garden City 131 days 4.25″
- 25 Hutchinson 128 days 4.25″
- 26 Bonner Springs 125 days 3.50″
- 27 De Soto 122 days 3.50″
- 28 Colby 121 days 4.25″
- 29 Hays 118 days 4.00″
- 30 Ulysses 118 days 4.75″
Every place in Kansas (64)
- Abilene84
- Andover194
- Arkansas City113
- Atchison50
- Augusta155
- Basehor103
- Bel Aire209
- Bonner Springs125
- Chanute51
- Coffeyville73
- Colby121
- Concordia59
- De Soto122
- Derby176
- Dodge City143
- El Dorado114
- Emporia94
- Eudora98
- Fort Scott58
- Garden City131
- Gardner105
- Goddard153
- Great Bend101
- Hays118
- Haysville210
- Hutchinson128
- Independence83
- Iola84
- Junction City95
- Kansas City151
- Lansing115
- Lawrence111
- Leavenworth99
- Leawood144
- Lenexa154
- Liberal104
- Louisburg52
- Maize202
- Manhattan83
- McPherson95
- Merriam152
- Mission158
- Mulvane155
- Newton103
- Olathe136
- Ottawa70
- Overland Park156
- Paola63
- Park City199
- Parsons66
- Pittsburg79
- Prairie Village153
- Pratt116
- Roeland Park163
- Salina89
- Shawnee154
- Spring Hill113
- Tonganoxie101
- Topeka146
- Ulysses118
- Valley Center186
- Wellington77
- Wichita222
- Winfield90
Hail days by year in Kansas
Days with hail At 1.00″ or more
The busiest year on record is 2001, with 93 days of hail, 74 of them at 1.00″ or more.
Largest hail recorded in Kansas
Measured Detected, not measured
| Date | Size | Evidence | County |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Sep 2010 | 7.75″ | Ground observation | SEDGWICK, KS |
| 15 Sep 2010 | 7.75″ | Ground observation | Not stated |
| 24 May 2011 | 6.00″ | Ground observation | RUSH, KS |
| 24 May 2011 | 6.00″ | Ground observation | RUSH, KS |
| 24 May 2011 | 6.00″ | Ground observation | Not stated |
| 26 May 1996 | 5.50″ | Ground observation | GRAY, KS |
| 21 May 2011 | 5.25″ | Ground observation | Not stated |
| 21 May 2011 | 5.25″ | Ground observation | SHAWNEE, KS |
Hail days by month in Kansas
Hail here is a June matter: 486 of the days on record fall in that month, all years together.
Get the hail report for an address in Kansas
The figures on this page are the record across Kansas: enough to know there is something to cite, and from where. None of it says what reached one roof.
Run the address and the same archive is searched at the property: the storm, the date, the measured size, the distance and bearing from the roof, and the federal record each figure came from, in a document that states its own method. Ready in minutes.
How this page is made
- What counted
- Every hail report in the archive filed under Kansas by its source, with the cities ranked by the reports within 10 miles of each centre. A hail day is a calendar date with at least one report: four sources describing one storm are one afternoon of hail, not four.
- Measured and detected
- A report from a person or an instrument is measured. A radar-derived size is a detection and is marked as one, here and in every document we issue. The two are never added together.
- Severe
- A day counts as severe when its largest report reached 1.00″, the National Weather Service criterion. Smaller hail is still on the record, and still on this page.
- What this is not
- Neighbouring places share reports, so counts are not exclusive. This page is the record around a place; it is not a report on any property, and it states no opinion about one.
- Terms used on this page
- Storm day, independent source, measured and detected: each term this page uses is defined in the glossary as the report prints it.
- The record
- Searched from 1996 to today. Compiled 28 August 2026 and rebuilt daily as the archive deepens. Records are reproduced as the federal sources published them. The coverage page states what the record holds, by kind and by year.
About this record
Everything here is reproduced from public federal and volunteer weather records, as the agencies and observer networks that publish them released it. Titan Weather compiles the record; it does not observe the weather, and it is not affiliated with any source it cites.
No archive holds everything. Storms cross places where nobody is standing, instruments and observers cover some areas better than others, sources revise their records, and recent reports can take weeks to arrive and settle. Coverage also thins as the years go back: an early quiet stretch may describe who was watching rather than what the weather did. Where this page shows nothing, nothing was found in the sources searched, within the period and area it states. That is not a finding that no weather occurred.
A record sits where its source filed it. Reports made from the ground are commonly logged against a town, a landmark or an offset from one rather than the spot where the measurement was taken, so any distance shown for one carries that source's own location error. Radar detections and warning geometry are instrument-located and do not.
These pages describe the public record near a place or on a date. They do not establish what reached any particular property, and nothing here is insurance, legal or engineering advice.