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Lewis, 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 Lewis city centroid, 1950 to present.

215hail events since 1950
155≥ 1.00" (quarter) or larger
4.00"largest on record · 1955-06-04
2025-05-23most recent hail event

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Hail by year — last 15 years

YearHail events ≤ 10 miLargest hail
2026 0
2025 2 1.00" (quarter)
2024 3 1.75" (golf ball)
2023 15 2.75" (baseball)
2022 5 2.00" (hen egg)
2021 7 1.25" (half dollar)
2020 6 3.00" (tea cup)
2019 7 2.50" (tennis ball)
2018 10 2.75" (baseball)
2017 7 2.75" (baseball)
2016 2 3.50" (tea cup)
2015 2 0.88" (nickel)
2014 0
2013 1 0.75" (penny)
2012 2 1.25" (half dollar)

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
2025-07-23 Thunderstorm Wind 81 mph 8.5 mi
2025-05-23 Hail 1.00" 9.2 mi
2025-05-18 Tornado EF0 7.1 mi
2025-05-18 Tornado EF2 3 mi
2025-04-24 Hail 1.00" 5.7 mi
2024-09-20 Thunderstorm Wind 61 mph 8.7 mi
2024-09-20 Thunderstorm Wind 59 mph 6.8 mi
2024-06-09 Thunderstorm Wind 64 mph 8.5 mi
2024-05-25 Hail 1.75" 8.5 mi
2024-05-19 Thunderstorm Wind 59 mph 7.9 mi

2025-07-23: “Delayed report. Emergency management reported damage to roofs, garage doors, and trees down in town. Time estimated by radar.”

2025-05-23: “A mPING report. Time adjusted based on radar.”

2025-05-18: “Fairly short-lived tornado. Video of tornado from KAKE chaser Cameron Venable as it was crossing or just after crossing US-50. Just some minor tree damage and one small farm outbuilding. Total path length of nearly 4.0 miles and peak winds of at least 85 mph (EF0).”

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

Each recorded hail day in Lewis 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