Hail in Wichita on Sunday, May 18, 2025
The Storm Prediction Center logged 7 hail reports in Wichita on Sunday, May 18, 2025, between 2:59 pm and 4:26 pm CDT, in 2 of the metro's 4 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at 3 WNW Downtown Wichita (Sedgwick County) at 3:29 pm. NOAA radar flagged 482 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 200 rated a 100% chance of hail and 128 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 6 places in Harvey and Sedgwick counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Downtown Wichita 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Colwich 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Garden Plain 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Hesston 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Wichita Eisenhowe 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Wichita Eisenhower Airp 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:59 pm | 1.25 | 2 E Garden Plain | Sedgwick | (ICT) |
| 3:15 pm | 1.50 | Colwich | Sedgwick | (ICT) |
| 3:24 pm | 1.25 | Wichita Eisenhower Airp | Sedgwick | Half dollar size hail at NWS office. (ICT) |
| 3:25 pm | 1.75 | 1 NNE Wichita Eisenhowe | Sedgwick | Near Kellogg and Ridge. (ICT) |
| 3:28 pm | 1.75 | 3 WNW Downtown Wichita | Sedgwick | Near 9th and Zoo Boulevard. (ICT) |
| 3:29 pm | 1.75 | 3 WNW Downtown Wichita | Sedgwick | Near 13th and West... courtesy of KAKE TV. (ICT) |
| 4:26 pm | 1.50 | 1 NW Hesston | Harvey | (ICT) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
482 signatures from 8 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; 200 were rated 100% and 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KICH | 137 | 30 | 25 | 0 | 1.50 in | 12:38 pm | 11:49 pm |
| KVNX | 97 | 45 | 24 | 3 | 3.00 in | 2:13 pm | 11:48 pm |
| KTWX | 89 | 49 | 25 | 3 | 2.75 in | 2:27 pm | 11:44 pm |
| KICT | 80 | 29 | 25 | 4 | 2.75 in | 1:06 pm | 11:43 pm |
| KDDC | 45 | 30 | 17 | 3 | 3.00 in | 1:05 pm | 11:30 pm |
| KINX | 17 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 1.50 in | 2:47 pm | 6:30 pm |
| KTLX | 10 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1.25 in | 12:41 pm | 2:30 pm |
| KEAX | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1.75 in | 5:41 pm | 6:32 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 Wichita when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 4 counties (Sedgwick, Butler, Harvey and Sumner counties). 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.