Hail in Wichita on Friday, August 7, 2026
The Storm Prediction Center logged 8 hail reports in Wichita on Friday, August 7, 2026, between 5:37 am and 8:08 am CDT, in 2 of the metro's 4 counties. The largest was 2.00 inches at 2 NNE Augusta (Butler County) at 8:08 am. NOAA radar flagged 1,892 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 350 rated a 100% chance of hail and 331 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 5 places in Butler and Sedgwick counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Augusta 3 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Haysville 2 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Derby 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Potwin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:37 am | 1.25 | 2 ENE Haysville | Sedgwick | (ICT) |
| 5:43 am | 1.00 | 2 NNW Derby | Sedgwick | (ICT) |
| 5:52 am | 1.00 | 2 E Haysville | Sedgwick | (ICT) |
| 6:01 am | 1.00 | 2 E Wichita | Sedgwick | (ICT) |
| 7:51 am | 1.00 | Potwin | Butler | (ICT) |
| 8:07 am | 1.00 | 2 N Augusta | Butler | Report from mPING. (ICT) |
| 8:08 am | 1.00 | Augusta | Butler | Very brief hail up to quarter sized in Augusta (exact location unknown). (ICT) |
| 8:08 am | 2.00 | 2 NNE Augusta | Butler | Several photos of 2 inch hail from the north end of Augusta. (ICT) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
1,892 signatures from 6 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; 350 were rated 100% and 28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KICT | 495 | 69 | 108 | 11 | 3.00 in | 12:09 am | 11:25 am |
| KVNX | 401 | 67 | 77 | 8 | 2.75 in | 12:29 am | 11:26 am |
| KINX | 366 | 67 | 46 | 2 | 2.75 in | 12:29 am | 11:26 am |
| KTWX | 362 | 80 | 50 | 4 | 2.25 in | 12:28 am | 11:14 am |
| KTLX | 147 | 41 | 25 | 1 | 2.00 in | 3:36 am | 11:17 am |
| KDDC | 121 | 26 | 25 | 2 | 2.75 in | 3:53 am | 10:34 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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