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Hail in Akron Jul 2, 2026

Hit 32 days ago

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 30 hail signatures up to 2.5", and the radar-estimated size reached 2.25" aloft. At 2.5" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

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Largest hailstone

2.5"

≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature

Homes in the hail footprint

Ground reports

none filed

Severity

The 5th 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.

4.5 /10

Hail size: 63 /100
Homes exposed: 31 /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 Jul 2, 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 2.5" Detections 30

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Akron, CO on Jul 2, 2026 — The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.

Max size 2.25"

The storm in context

Where Jul 2, 2026 sits in Akron's hail record

This was Akron's 11th recorded hail day, arriving 8 days after the Jun 24, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 18 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Akron at 2.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jul 2, 2026 convective day was bigger than Akron: the same system put hail over 1,147 other tracked cities, 27 of them in Colorado. Nearest: Brush (21 miles west, up to 0"); Sterling (35 miles north, up to 2.75"); Fleming (35 miles north, up to 1.75").

These maps are stills from Akron's Jul 2, 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.

Severe, roof-replacing hail

What 2.5" 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

$396K

Potential roof exposure — 33 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 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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