Hail in Wichita on Saturday, May 30, 2026
The Storm Prediction Center logged 8 hail reports in Wichita on Saturday, May 30, 2026, between 7:37 pm and 8:35 pm CDT, in 2 of the metro's 4 counties. The largest was 1.50 inches at Andale (Sedgwick County) at 7:41 pm. NOAA radar flagged 1,097 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 408 rated a 100% chance of hail and 304 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 4 places in Harvey and Sedgwick counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Andale 4 reports, up to 1.50 in
- Mount Hope 2 reports, up to 1.50 in
- Newton 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Sedgwick 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7:37 pm | 1.00 | Andale | Sedgwick | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (ICT) |
| 7:38 pm | 1.25 | Andale | Sedgwick | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (ICT) |
| 7:40 pm | 1.25 | Andale | Sedgwick | (ICT) |
| 7:40 pm | 1.50 | Mount Hope | Sedgwick | 55 to 65 mph winds along with the hail. (ICT) |
| 7:41 pm | 1.50 | Andale | Sedgwick | Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). (ICT) |
| 8:05 pm | 1.25 | Sedgwick | Harvey | (ICT) |
| 8:25 pm | 1.00 | 5 SSE Newton | Harvey | (ICT) |
| 8:35 pm | 1.00 | Mount Hope | Sedgwick | (ICT) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
1,097 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; 408 were rated 100% and 50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KVNX | 299 | 124 | 96 | 19 | 3.00 in | 12:00 am | 10:10 pm |
| KICT | 257 | 93 | 88 | 21 | 2.75 in | 12:00 am | 10:11 pm |
| KTWX | 204 | 83 | 47 | 2 | 2.00 in | 12:30 am | 10:10 pm |
| KINX | 178 | 50 | 37 | 1 | 2.25 in | 5:34 am | 10:14 pm |
| KTLX | 78 | 21 | 11 | 0 | 1.75 in | 5:31 am | 6:12 pm |
| KDDC | 60 | 35 | 23 | 7 | 2.75 in | 5:34 am | 8:58 pm |
| KEAX | 17 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1.50 in | 9:15 am | 10:08 pm |
| KICH | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 12:01 am | 12:37 am |
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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