Hail in Wichita on Thursday, June 18, 2026
The Storm Prediction Center logged 9 hail reports in Wichita on Thursday, June 18, 2026, between 6:41 am and 6:31 pm CDT, in 3 of the metro's 4 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at Belle Plaine (Sumner County) at 6:31 pm. NOAA radar flagged 3,785 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 893 rated a 100% chance of hail and 495 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 7 places in Butler, Sedgwick and Sumner counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Belle Plaine 3 reports, up to 1.75 in
- El Dorado 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Haysville 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Mulvane 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Udall 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Viola 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Wichita 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6:41 am | 1.25 | El Dorado | Butler | Photo on Social Media and relayed from News Media. (ICT) |
| 6:58 am | 1.00 | 2 ESE Wichita | Sedgwick | Report via Social Media. (ICT) |
| 9:08 am | 1.00 | Mulvane | Sedgwick | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (ICT) |
| 10:18 am | 1.00 | 3 SSE Haysville | Sedgwick | (ICT) |
| 5:29 pm | 1.00 | 2 S Viola | Sumner | Time estimated from radar. (ICT) |
| 6:26 pm | 1.00 | Belle Plaine | Sumner | (ICT) |
| 6:29 pm | 1.25 | 1 W Belle Plaine | Sumner | Quarter size hail with a few half dollar size hailstones. Time estimated from radar. (ICT) |
| 6:31 pm | 1.75 | Belle Plaine | Sumner | Many half dollar size stones on the ground with a few golf ball size stones observed. Time estimated from radar. (ICT) |
| 6:31 pm | 1.00 | 5 WNW Udall | Sumner | Time estimated from radar. (ICT) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
3,785 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; 893 were rated 100% and 22 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 | 852 | 78 | 78 | 1 | 2.00 in | 5:32 am | 11:59 pm |
| KICT | 622 | 174 | 118 | 12 | 3.50 in | 5:30 am | 11:58 pm |
| KVNX | 597 | 171 | 98 | 3 | 2.00 in | 5:32 am | 11:59 pm |
| KTWX | 575 | 149 | 53 | 0 | 1.75 in | 5:34 am | 9:18 pm |
| KINX | 446 | 112 | 49 | 0 | 1.75 in | 5:33 am | 11:58 pm |
| KTLX | 407 | 134 | 80 | 6 | 2.25 in | 5:34 am | 11:58 pm |
| KDDC | 270 | 70 | 19 | 0 | 1.75 in | 5:57 am | 11:56 pm |
| KEAX | 16 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 6:37 am | 1:39 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.