Hail in Wichita on Friday, July 11, 2025
The Storm Prediction Center logged 5 hail reports in Wichita on Friday, July 11, 2025, between 6:55 pm and 8:13 pm CDT, in 2 of the metro's 4 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at Augusta (Butler County) at 7:20 pm. NOAA radar flagged 286 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 176 rated a 100% chance of hail and 141 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 2 places in Butler and Sumner counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Augusta 4 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Belle Plaine 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6:55 pm | 1.00 | 5 WNW Augusta | Butler | Emergency manager reported quarter size hail at Stanta Fe Lake. (ICT) |
| 6:59 pm | 1.00 | 1 WSW Augusta | Butler | (ICT) |
| 7:11 pm | 1.25 | 1 S Augusta | Butler | (ICT) |
| 7:20 pm | 1.75 | Augusta | Butler | courtesy of KAKE. (ICT) |
| 8:13 pm | 1.00 | Belle Plaine | Sumner | (ICT) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
286 signatures from 7 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; 176 were rated 100% and 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KTWX | 64 | 40 | 33 | 0 | 1.75 in | 6:38 pm | 9:17 pm |
| KVNX | 62 | 46 | 36 | 2 | 2.25 in | 6:39 pm | 9:11 pm |
| KICT | 59 | 41 | 34 | 6 | 2.50 in | 6:38 pm | 9:10 pm |
| KINX | 40 | 29 | 24 | 1 | 2.25 in | 6:41 pm | 9:16 pm |
| KICH | 27 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 in | 8:00 pm | 9:15 pm |
| KTLX | 18 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 1.75 in | 4:53 pm | 9:14 pm |
| KDDC | 16 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 1.50 in | 7:22 pm | 9:05 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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