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Hail in Akron May 30, 2026

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 66 hail signatures up to 1.25", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.75" aloft.

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Largest hailstone

1.25"

≈ half-dollar · the largest NEXRAD radar signature

Homes in the hail footprint

1,493

Ground reports

2 hail

Severity

The 10th 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.

4.0 /10

Hail size: 31 /100
Homes exposed: 63 /100
Ground truth: 33 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Akron saw the hail — from two instruments

Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.

NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Akron, CO on May 30, 2026 — NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.

Max size 1.25" Detections 66

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Akron, CO on May 30, 2026 — Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.

Max size 0.75"

The storm in context

Where May 30, 2026 sits in Akron's hail record

This was Akron's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 13 days after the May 17, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 10th of the 18 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Akron at 1.25" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The May 30, 2026 convective day was bigger than Akron: the same system put hail over 541 other tracked cities, 23 of them in Colorado. Nearest: Otis (11 miles southeast, up to 0.75"); Yuma (24 miles east, up to 1"); Sterling (35 miles north, up to 1").

These maps are stills from Akron's May 30, 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.

Hail reports

2 reports

Hail size 1.5"

Akron Washington County

10:15 PM UTC

“(BOU)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 1"

3 W Akron Washington County

11:40 PM UTC

“(BOU)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Storm forensics

How the storm moved

Hail was reported over 85 minutes, from 10:15 PM UTC to 11:40 PM UTC .

Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.

Shingle-bruising hail

What 1.25" 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.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$18M

Potential roof exposure — 1,493 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs

7 jobs

Illustrative work

~$105K

Close just 0.5% of the 1,493 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.

Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around May 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

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Akron hail history

18 recorded storm days in Akron, CO

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