June 20th was the day the week had been building toward — 226 reports, the busiest of the run, and the wind did the heavy lifting: 165 wind reports against 50 hail and 11 tornadoes, raked across the High Plains from Kansas up into Wyoming.
The number that stops you came out of Kansas: a 100 mph gust at Colby. Triple digits is a different category of damage — wind like that tears shingles off in sheets, lifts decking, and turns a loose piece of flashing into a sail. Kansas owned the day at 103 reports — 80 wind, 8 tornadoes, and 15 hail, the biggest a 2.75-inch stone at Menlo, well past the size where a roof claim is even a question.
The same line drove north into Wyoming — 66 reports, nearly all wind, worst around Carpenter — and into Nebraska, where it flipped back to hail: 21 stones, up to 2.5 inches near Stratton. Colorado chipped in another 2.5-inch core near Atwood. When one system drops 2.5-to-2.75-inch hail across three states in an evening, a lot of roofs just lost years of life at once.
Here's the trap on a day everyone remembers for the wind: the hail becomes a footnote, and it shouldn't. The 100 mph gust gets fixed because you can see it from the street — the 2.5-inch hits don't, and out on the High Plains the towns are small enough that a cracked roof can sit two seasons before anyone climbs up to find it. The stone is the part that opens seams and bruises the mat where a leak starts two springs from now.
If you're anywhere in the Colby-to-Goodland stretch, or down by Menlo, Stratton, or Atwood, move while the timeline's still clean: note the date, shoot photos of anything obvious, and have someone walk the roof before the next storm muddies whose hail did what. For contractors, this is the week's real work — the I-70 wind corridor across western Kansas, then the Carpenter and Stratton pockets north. Kansas just keeps padding its lead on the Top States for Hail board. The complete state-by-state breakdown is below — find your county and see exactly what came down.