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Ford, KS hail history

Every figure below is from the NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database — the official NWS record — counting events recorded within 10 miles of the Ford city centroid, 1950 to present.

209hail events since 1950
144≥ 1.00" (quarter) or larger
4.00"largest on record · 2018-05-29
2024-05-25most recent hail event

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Hail by year — last 15 years

YearHail events ≤ 10 miLargest hail
2026 0
2025 0
2024 3 1.25" (half dollar)
2023 5 2.00" (hen egg)
2022 6 2.00" (hen egg)
2021 0
2020 4 1.25" (half dollar)
2019 1 0.88" (nickel)
2018 16 4.00" (softball)
2017 4 2.75" (baseball)
2016 2 1.75" (golf ball)
2015 3 1.00" (quarter)
2014 7 2.25" (hen egg)
2013 8 1.75" (golf ball)
2012 5 1.75" (golf ball)

Note: the current and prior year reflect the latest NCEI compile and grow as NWS finalizes reports; same-day activity appears on this site's storm-day pages before it reaches this table.

Wind and tornado record

Most recent recorded events

DateTypeMagnitudeDistance
2025-08-03 Thunderstorm Wind 64 mph 9.3 mi
2025-08-03 Thunderstorm Wind 81 mph 7.4 mi
2025-08-03 Thunderstorm Wind 72 mph 4.3 mi
2024-05-25 Hail 1.00" 8.2 mi
2024-05-19 Thunderstorm Wind 60 mph 9.3 mi
2024-05-19 Hail 1.25" 9 mi
2024-05-19 Hail 1.00" 9 mi
2023-07-20 Thunderstorm Wind 59 mph 9.3 mi
2023-07-17 Thunderstorm Wind 61 mph 8.6 mi
2023-07-17 Hail 2.00" 9 mi

2025-08-03: “Mesonet station DW9907 Bloom reported a 65 mph wind gust, Mesonet station UP835 3.0 W Kingsdown reported a 62 mph, and a AWN weather station reported a 60 mph in the same time and area.”

2025-08-03: “Twenty-five freight cars were derailed on highway 54 east of Kingsdown.”

2025-08-03: “One mesonet site recorded a 73 mph wind gusts at AWN weather station 4 ENE Ford. A nearby mesonet site reported a 64 mph gust a minute earlier from K5FRD 3WNW Ford.”

Storm-day records for Ford — “did it hail on this date?”

Each recorded hail day in Ford has its own page with the official NWS reports for that date.

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Type a street address. We measure it against every hail event the National Weather Service recorded in the last 10 years and show you how many fall within 1, 3 and 10 miles — free, instantly, nothing stored. Rural property with no street address? Enter coordinates as 44.05, -107.31.

Address lookup by the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder. Records: NOAA NCEI Storm Events (final) plus SPC preliminary reports for storms newer than the latest compile — see methodology.

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NWS records are point and path observations. The absence of a nearby report does NOT prove that no hail fell at this address — it means no observation was logged nearby. A report of nearby hail documents the event; it does not by itself prove damage to a specific structure.

source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events computed 2026-07-25