Hail in Kansas City on Tuesday, September 16, 2025
The Storm Prediction Center logged 8 hail reports in Kansas City on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, between 6:00 pm and 7:00 pm CDT, in 3 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at 2 W Merriam (Johnson, KS) at 6:08 pm. NOAA radar flagged 468 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 122 rated a 100% chance of hail and 82 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 3 places in Jackson, MO, Johnson, KS and Platte, MO, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Merriam 6 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Lake Tapawingo 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Parkville 1 report, up to 1.00 in
Every hail report logged that day
Times are Central Daylight Time. Sizes are in inches, as reported. The comment is the National Weather Service's text as published in the Storm Prediction Center's daily log.
| Time | Size | Place | County | NWS comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6:00 pm | 1.00 | 1 N Merriam | Johnson, KS | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (EAX) |
| 6:05 pm | 1.00 | 1 NW Merriam | Johnson, KS | (EAX) |
| 6:07 pm | 1.00 | 2 NW Merriam | Johnson, KS | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (EAX) |
| 6:08 pm | 1.75 | 2 W Merriam | Johnson, KS | (EAX) |
| 6:10 pm | 1.25 | 1 NNW Merriam | Johnson, KS | Social media photo of hail up to half dollar size on Knox Street. Time estimated from radar. (EAX) |
| 6:12 pm | 1.00 | 2 W Merriam | Johnson, KS | Social media picture of quarter size hail. (EAX) |
| 6:46 pm | 1.00 | 3 NW Lake Tapawingo | Jackson, MO | Social media report of mostly pea to nickel size hail with a few stones up to quarter size between Independence and Blue Springs. Time and location estimated from radar (EAX) |
| 7:00 pm | 1.00 | 1 SSE Parkville | Platte, MO | KSHB-TV viewer showed picture of 1 inch hail near Parkville. (EAX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
468 signatures from 5 radars fell inside the metro's counties on this local date, counting every cell the algorithm rated from a 10% to a 100% chance of hail; 122 were rated 100% and 5 had a maximum expected size of 2 inches or more.
| Radar | Signatures | Rated 100% | 1 in or more | 2 in or more | Largest expected | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KMCI | 226 | 42 | 46 | 1 | 2.00 in | 3:15 pm | 7:03 pm |
| KEAX | 112 | 40 | 24 | 4 | 2.75 in | 3:16 pm | 7:12 pm |
| KTWX | 108 | 31 | 10 | 0 | 1.50 in | 3:15 pm | 7:08 pm |
| KSGF | 21 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1.50 in | 3:03 pm | 6:48 pm |
| KDMX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 3:58 pm | 3:58 pm |
Each radar that scans a storm writes its own signature about every 4 to 6 minutes, so one storm produces many rows and overlapping radars count it more than once. The raw rows for this day are in NOAA's Severe Weather Data Inventory.
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