Hail in Kansas City on Wednesday, August 19, 2026
The Storm Prediction Center logged 33 hail reports in Kansas City on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, between 1:02 am and 2:05 am CDT, in 4 of the metro's 11 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at 2 W Sugar Creek (Jackson, MO) at 1:56 am. NOAA radar flagged 639 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 99 rated a 100% chance of hail and 57 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 10 places in Clay, MO, Jackson, MO, Leavenworth, KS and Wyandotte, KS, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Piper 7 reports, up to 1.75 in
- North Kansas City 6 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Maywood 5 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Independence 4 reports, up to 1.50 in
- Kansas City Kansas 3 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Sugar Creek 3 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Kansas City Kansa 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Beverly Hills 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Jarbalo 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Kansas City 1 report, up to 1.25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:02 am | 1.00 | 3 ENE Jarbalo | Leavenworth, KS | Emergency manager reported quarter sized hail. Time estimated from radar. (EAX) |
| 1:06 am | 1.50 | 1 NE Piper | Wyandotte, KS | hail covered the ground... largest stones near ping pong ball sized... report via slack... time estimate via radar. (EAX) |
| 1:15 am | 1.50 | 2 NNW Piper | Wyandotte, KS | Picture shared via social media shows wind shield damage from large hail. (EAX) |
| 1:16 am | 1.75 | 3 NNW Piper | Wyandotte, KS | Photo shared on social media of measured hail around golf ball sized. Time estimated from radar. (EAX) |
| 1:19 am | 1.75 | Piper | Wyandotte, KS | Picture shared via social media depicts several hail stones measured to be 1.75 inched. Time estimated via radar. (EAX) |
| 1:20 am | 1.75 | 2 NE Piper | Wyandotte, KS | Golf Ball sized hail reported by the public. Time estimated from radar. (EAX) |
| 1:21 am | 1.75 | 1 NNW Maywood | Wyandotte, KS | Report via slack... time estimated via radar. (EAX) |
| 1:21 am | 1.75 | 2 ENE Piper | Wyandotte, KS | Report via social media showing measured hail stones of 1.75 inches. Time estimated via radar. (EAX) |
| 1:22 am | 1.75 | 1 NNW Maywood | Wyandotte, KS | Shared photos of several hailstones approximately golf ball sized. Time estimated from radar. (EAX) |
| 1:22 am | 1.75 | 2 NE Piper | Wyandotte, KS | Emergency manager shared photo of golf ball sized hail... time estimated from radar. (EAX) |
| 1:28 am | 1.50 | 1 NNE Maywood | Wyandotte, KS | Public shared photo of hailstone on social media. Time estimated from radar. (EAX) |
| 1:30 am | 1.00 | 2 WNW Kansas City Kansa | Wyandotte, KS | Report shared via social media. Time of 1:30am was provided. (EAX) |
| 1:30 am | 1.00 | 1 S Beverly Hills | Wyandotte, KS | Report via social media. Time was provided. (EAX) |
| 1:32 am | 1.00 | 2 E Maywood | Wyandotte, KS | Public reported quarter sized hail. Time estimated from radar. (EAX) |
| 1:34 am | 1.25 | 3 NW Kansas City Kansas | Wyandotte, KS | Photo shared via social media shows various large hail. Time estimated via radar. (EAX) |
| 1:40 am | 1.75 | 1 W Kansas City Kansas | Wyandotte, KS | Report via social media. (EAX) |
| 1:41 am | 1.75 | 1 NNE Kansas City Kansa | Wyandotte, KS | Picture shared via social media shows a car with hail damage. Time estimated via radar. (EAX) |
| 1:41 am | 1.00 | 1 NW Kansas City Kansas | Wyandotte, KS | Report via social media. Time estimated by radar. (EAX) |
| 1:44 am | 1.25 | 1 NW North Kansas City | Clay, MO | Public shared report via social media of several hailstones approximately half dollar sized. Time estimated from radar. (EAX) |
| 1:45 am | 1.25 | 1 NW Kansas City | Jackson, MO | Public reported half dollar sized hail. Time estimated from radar. (EAX) |
| 1:47 am | 1.25 | 1 NNW North Kansas City | Clay, MO | Report via social media. Time estimated by radar. (EAX) |
| 1:49 am | 1.50 | 1 SSE North Kansas City | Jackson, MO | Picture shared via social media. Time estimated via radar. (EAX) |
| 1:50 am | 1.25 | Independence | Jackson, MO | Public shared photo of hail approximately half dollar sized. Time estimated from radar. (EAX) |
| 1:50 am | 1.75 | 2 SE North Kansas City | Jackson, MO | report via social media. Time estimate via radar. (EAX) |
| 1:50 am | 1.75 | 1 SSE North Kansas City | Jackson, MO | Public shared photo on social media of many large hailstones... with the largest approximately golf ball sized. Time estimated from radar. (EAX) |
| 1:53 am | 1.25 | 1 NW North Kansas City | Clay, MO | Report via social media. Time was provided. (EAX) |
| 1:54 am | 1.25 | 2 WNW Maywood | Jackson, MO | Report via social media. Time estimate via radar. (EAX) |
| 1:56 am | 1.75 | 2 W Sugar Creek | Jackson, MO | Social media shared a photo of hail approximately golf ball sized. Time estimated from radar. (EAX) |
| 1:56 am | 1.00 | Sugar Creek | Jackson, MO | Public shared photo of quarter sized hail. Time estimated from radar. (EAX) |
| 1:59 am | 1.00 | Sugar Creek | Jackson, MO | (EAX) |
| 2:00 am | 1.50 | 4 E Independence | Jackson, MO | report via social media. time estimated via radar. (EAX) |
| 2:01 am | 1.50 | 1 SW Independence | Jackson, MO | Social media shared report of hail approximately ping pong in size. Time estimated from radar. (EAX) |
| 2:05 am | 1.00 | 1 E Independence | Jackson, MO | Social media post showed quarter size hail. (EAX) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
639 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; 99 were rated 100% and 16 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 | 325 | 33 | 21 | 1 | 2.00 in | 1:35 am | 6:14 pm |
| KEAX | 141 | 33 | 19 | 6 | 4.00 in | 1:31 am | 5:56 pm |
| KTWX | 114 | 17 | 9 | 6 | 3.25 in | 1:35 am | 6:09 pm |
| KSGF | 57 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 2.50 in | 1:32 am | 6:15 am |
| KDMX | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 5:41 pm | 5:45 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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Spotter reports come from the Storm Prediction Center's preliminary daily logs, grouped here by local calendar date (Central Daylight Time) and by county: a report counts for Kansas City when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 11 counties (the counties of Jackson, MO, Clay, MO, Platte, MO, Cass, MO, Ray, MO, Clinton, MO, Lafayette, MO, Johnson, KS, Wyandotte, KS, Leavenworth, KS and Miami, KS). Radar signatures are estimates from the Hail Detection Algorithm, not measured stones; they include every cell it rated, from a 10% to a 100% probability of hail. How these pages are built.