After two soft days up in the Northern Plains, the atmosphere reloaded. The 9th was the busiest day of the whole stretch — 87 reports, and for once they concentrated instead of scattering. Kansas alone accounted for 39 of them.
Kansas ran a genuine wind corridor. Thirty-two of its 39 reports were gusts, capped by an 80 mph blow at Goodland out on the High Plains, with a 1.75-inch hail stone mixed in near Belle Plaine down south. A line that puts up numbers like that isn't a heat-of-the-day pop — it's an organized shove, and 80 mph peels ridge caps, lifts shingle tabs, and finds every loose flashing seam on a roof.
The hail story, though, belonged to North Dakota — 19 reports, a dozen of them hail, plus a pair of tornadoes. The day's biggest stone came down there: a 2.5-incher at Heimdal, tennis-ball ice that cracks mats outright and dents anything metal it lands on. Colorado added ten reports of wind along the Front Range, and a lone tornado turned up in Missouri near Westphalia.
Two very different storms, two very different kinds of damage. If you were under that Kansas wind, the harm hides at the edges — ridge, rakes, flashing, the places wind pries first. If you were under the North Dakota hail, it's the broad flat of the roof that took it. Either way, 80 mph and 2.5-inch ice both leave damage a dry ceiling will hide clean through summer. Don't wait for the drip to tell you; get eyes on the slope now.
For the crews, this is the clearest map in a week. Kansas is a wind canvass from Goodland east; North Dakota around Heimdal is the real hail work, concentrated and a day fresh. The season's running tally of where the giant stones keep landing is on the Top States for Hail board. The rest of the country is in the table below — look up your county and see whether the 9th sent anything your way.