Storm report · Washington

Hail in Akron Jun 24, 2026

Hit 40 days ago

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2.25" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Akron this day. At 2.25" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

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Largest hailstone

2.25"

≈ tennis ball · radar-estimated size aloft

Homes in the hail footprint

4,379

Ground reports

4 hail · 8 wind

Severity

The 3rd 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.

6.7 /10

Hail size: 56 /100
Homes exposed: 73 /100
Ground truth: 100 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Akron saw the hail — from two instruments

We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Akron, CO on Jun 24, 2026 — Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.

Max size 2.25"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 24, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Akron, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jun 24, 2026 sits in Akron's hail record

This was Akron's 10th recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the Jun 22, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 18 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Akron at 2.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jun 24, 2026 convective day was bigger than Akron: the same system put hail over 383 other tracked cities, 39 of them in Colorado. Nearest: Brush (21 miles west, up to 2.25"); Atwood (21 miles north, up to 1.75"); Yuma (24 miles east, up to 0.75").

These maps are stills from Akron's Jun 24, 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

4 reports

Hail size 1.5"

3 S Elba Washington County

12:16 AM UTC

“(BOU)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 1"

3 W Elba Washington County

12:12 AM UTC

“Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.) Time estimated from radar. (BOU)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 1.5"

7 ENE Woodrow Washington County

11:30 PM UTC

“Time estimated from radar. (BOU)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 1.75"

7 ENE Woodrow Washington County

11:35 PM UTC

“Time estimated from radar. (BOU)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Wind reports

8 reports

Wind gust 61 mph

3 N Messex Logan County

10:26 PM UTC

“(BOU)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Wind gust 58 mph

Elba Washington County

3:38 AM UTC

“(BOU)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Wind gust 78 mph

4 E Akron Washington County

4:00 AM UTC

“Corrects previous non-tstm wnd gst report from 4 E Akron. Mesonet station AKR02 Akron. (BOU)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Wind gust 71 mph

1 ESE Akron Washington County

3:22 AM UTC

“Mesonet station EW7755 Akron. (BOU)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Wind gust 81 mph

1 W Akron Washington County

11:38 PM UTC

“(BOU)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Wind gust 63 mph

1 NNW Akron Washington County

11:29 PM UTC

“AWOS station KAKO Akron. (BOU)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Wind gust 83 mph

1 NNW Akron Washington County

3:15 AM UTC

“ASOS station KAKO Akron. This station also reported a 59 mph gust at 903 PM... with at least 60 mph gusts observed between 910 and 929 PM. The peak sustained wind was 6 (BOU)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Wind gust 70 mph

1 NNW Akron Washington County

11:18 PM UTC

“ASOS station KAKO Akron. (BOU)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Storm forensics

How the storm moved

Hail was reported over 334 minutes, from 10:26 PM UTC to 4:00 AM UTC .

Reports came from Elba, Woodrow, and Messex — beyond Akron itself.

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

Severe, roof-replacing hail

What 2.25" hail means for Akron roofs

Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$53M

Potential roof exposure — 4,379 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs

22 jobs

Illustrative work

~$330K

Close just 0.5% of the 4,379 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 June 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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