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Hail in Akron May 17, 2026

NEXRAD caught this storm: 0 hail signatures up to 1". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.

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Largest hailstone

≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature

Homes in the hail footprint

Ground reports

none filed

Severity

The 17th most severe storm Akron has seen in the last 12 months

Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

1.5 /10

Hail size: 25 /100
Homes exposed: 0 /100
Ground truth: 0 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Akron saw the hail — from two instruments

The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.

NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Akron, CO on May 17, 2026 — Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.

Max size 1" Detections 0

Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for May 17, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where May 17, 2026 sits in Akron's hail record

This was Akron's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the May 16, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 17th of the 18 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Akron at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The May 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Akron: the same system put hail over 894 other tracked cities, 33 of them in Colorado. Nearest: Yuma (24 miles east, up to 0"); Woodrow (36 miles southwest, up to 1"); Anton (37 miles south, up to 1").

These maps are stills from Akron's May 17, 2026 storm. In the Overview app the same surfaces are live — radar updating in real time, radar-estimated hail size as it forms, and NWS spotter reports pinned where they're filed — with a radar replay you can scrub back over any past day.

Ground reports

What people on the ground reported

These are storm reports filed with the National Weather Service and released through the NOAA Storm Prediction Center — public-domain observations from spotters, the public, and NWS surveys. We quote each one exactly as filed.

The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Akron. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.

Shingle-bruising hail

What 1" hail means for Akron roofs

Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.

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Akron hail history

18 recorded storm days in Akron, CO

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