Hail in Wichita on Saturday, April 25, 2026
The Storm Prediction Center logged 11 hail reports in Wichita on Saturday, April 25, 2026, between 6:59 pm and 7:46 pm CDT, in 1 of the metro's 4 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at 3 WNW Downtown Wichita (Sedgwick County) at 7:30 pm. NOAA radar flagged 334 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 80 rated a 100% chance of hail and 146 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 5 places in Sedgwick County, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Maize 5 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Downtown Wichita 3 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Andover 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Colwich 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- East Wichita 1 report, up to 1.50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6:59 pm | 1.00 | 2 WNW Maize | Sedgwick | Between Colwich and Maize. (ICT) |
| 7:04 pm | 1.00 | 2 S Maize | Sedgwick | Report from mPING. (ICT) |
| 7:04 pm | 1.00 | 4 SSW Colwich | Sedgwick | Near 199th and 29th Street North. (ICT) |
| 7:14 pm | 1.75 | 3 SSW Maize | Sedgwick | Near 119th and 21st. (ICT) |
| 7:17 pm | 1.50 | 3 SSW Maize | Sedgwick | Near 119th and 29th. (ICT) |
| 7:24 pm | 1.50 | 4 SSE Maize | Sedgwick | Near 21st and Ridge. (ICT) |
| 7:28 pm | 1.50 | 2 SSE East Wichita | Sedgwick | Near Rock and Harry. (ICT) |
| 7:30 pm | 1.75 | 3 WNW Downtown Wichita | Sedgwick | Near 13th and West. Hail sizes ranged from quarters to golfballs. Time estimated from radar. (ICT) |
| 7:31 pm | 1.50 | 3 WNW Downtown Wichita | Sedgwick | (ICT) |
| 7:36 pm | 1.00 | 2 SW Andover | Sedgwick | Report from mPING. (ICT) |
| 7:46 pm | 1.00 | 1 SE Downtown Wichita | Sedgwick | Report from mPING. (ICT) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
334 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; 80 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KICH | 112 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 1.25 in | 4:41 pm | 8:47 pm |
| KVNX | 81 | 33 | 48 | 7 | 2.50 in | 4:37 pm | 8:43 pm |
| KTWX | 52 | 28 | 35 | 6 | 2.00 in | 4:44 pm | 8:43 pm |
| KICT | 39 | 2 | 19 | 3 | 2.75 in | 4:35 pm | 8:41 pm |
| KINX | 26 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 1.25 in | 4:43 pm | 8:44 pm |
| KDDC | 21 | 11 | 14 | 0 | 1.75 in | 5:48 pm | 7:33 pm |
| KTLX | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 4:41 pm | 4:48 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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