Hail size 2.75"
Kanorado Sherman County
“Social Media report with video of golf ball to baseball sized hail. (GLD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Burlington May 16, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 77 hail signatures up to 2.5", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.5" aloft. At 2.5" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
2.5"
≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
250
Ground reports
4
2 hail · 2 windThe 2nd most severe storm Burlington 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.
5.9 /10
- Hail size
- 63 /100
- Homes exposed
- 48 /100
- Ground truth
- 67 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Burlington 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 signatures
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
77
Radar-estimated hail size
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
1.5"
Where May 16, 2026 sits in Burlington's hail record
This was Burlington's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 7 days after the May 9, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Burlington at 2.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The May 16, 2026 convective day was bigger than Burlington: the same system put hail over 711 other tracked cities, 30 of them in Colorado. Nearest: Kanorado (13 miles southeast, up to 2.5"); Bethune (13 miles northwest, up to 1.25"); Idalia (21 miles north, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills from Burlington's May 16, 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.
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"
Kanorado Sherman County
“Sherman county dispatch relayed report of one inch hail in Kanorado. (GLD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind reports
2 reports Wind gust 63 mph
5 S Burlington Kit Carson County
“ASOS station KITR Burlington Co Airport. (GLD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind gust 75 mph
6 NNE Peconic Kit Carson County
“Estimated 65-75 MPH wind gust. (GLD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
The storm tracked northwest at roughly 5 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.
Hail was reported over 56 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Kanorado and Peconic — beyond Burlington itself.
What 2.5" hail means for Burlington 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
$3M
Potential roof exposure — 250 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
1 job
Illustrative work
~$15K
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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Burlington hail history
← All hail in Burlington 13 recorded storm days in Burlington, CO
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ground reports 
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ground report 
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May 29, 2026
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2
ground reports 
May 17, 2026
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1
ground report 
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3
ground reports 
Jan 26, 2026
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A storm day here is a convective day — it runs from noon to noon
UTC, so late-night hail is grouped with the afternoon storm that
spawned it rather than split across two calendar dates. Ground
reports are public-domain observations from the NOAA Storm
Prediction Center. Radar surfaces are detections and estimates,
not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.