Hudson, KS Hail Storm – September 2025

What Happened

A severe hail storm crossed Hudson, Kansas, on September 8, 2025, with peak confirmed hail at 3 inches and multiple spotter-verified reports of larger stones. The storm produced several rounds of hail from late morning into early evening, with the most intense activity concentrated in the afternoon.

The first alert came at 9:23 AM CDT with 1.5-inch hail and radar plus spotter verification. Additional warnings followed at 10:28 AM CDT and 12:55 PM CDT for 1-inch hail, then again at 1:33 PM CDT with another spotter-verified 1-inch report. By midafternoon, the hail signal strengthened. At 4:43 PM CDT, radar and spotters supported a 2-inch hail alert.

The strongest cluster arrived after that. Alerts at 5:05 PM CDT and 5:22 PM CDT both carried a 2.75-inch hail estimate with radar and spotter verification. A local storm report at 5:15 PM CDT documented measured hail around 3.5 inches in Hudson, with several separate reports at the same time giving the same measurement. A later report at 6:43 PM CDT came from social media photos and also placed hail at 4 inches. The final verified alert for the day came at 7:02 PM CDT with 3-inch hail.

Dual-polarization radar supported several of the intervening alerts, including 10:28 AM CDT, 12:55 PM CDT, 4:51 PM CDT, 4:54 PM CDT, 5:39 PM CDT, and 7:00 PM CDT. The warning sequence showed repeated hail production through the afternoon and evening, with the heaviest reports centered in the late-afternoon round.

Damage Assessment

The surface reports point to a concentrated hail event with enough intensity to produce large stone sizes in the Hudson area. Multiple spotters independently measured about 3.5 inches at 5:15 PM CDT. A separate report at 6:43 PM CDT, supported by social media photos, also placed hail at 4 inches. Those reports sit above the 3-inch maximum confirmed hail size in the storm record.

The timing matters. The largest field reports arrived during the same late-afternoon period that produced the 2.75-inch radar-and-spotter alerts. That sequence suggests a tight window of strongest hail output rather than a single isolated burst. The earlier 1-inch to 1.5-inch alerts and the midday rounds show that hail was already occurring before the larger stones reached the ground.

For Hudson and nearby property owners, the most likely damage pattern from this event is roof, soft-metal, and vehicle impact in the path of the heaviest stones. The multiple spotter measurements at 5:15 PM CDT point to an especially intense period of hailfall. The later photo-based report at 6:43 PM CDT extends that window into the evening.

This was not a brief edge-of-warning graupel event. It was a repeated hail-producing storm with verified large stone reports, radar support, and several separate observations from the same metro area.

Hudson, KS Hail Storm – September 2025

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