Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 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.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm — see the ground reports below.
2.5"
≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature1,188
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1 hail · 1 wind · 1 tornadoOverview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
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'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.
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.
This was Cheyenne Wells's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 5 days after the Jun 21, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Cheyenne Wells at 2.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jun 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Cheyenne Wells: the same system put hail over 440 other tracked cities, 51 of them in Colorado. Nearest: Eads (29 miles southwest, up to 2.5"); Stratton (35 miles north, up to 1.75"); Vona (37 miles north, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills from Cheyenne Wells's Jun 26, 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.
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.
“Location approx. Possible tornado spotted north west of Cheyenne wells on county road 38 keeps going down and going back up with lots of rotation in the clouds per trai (GLD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“Report via Textline of pictured Ping Pong Ball sized Hail. (GLD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“CDOT Mesonet 068 site reported a 68 mph gust. (GLD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
The storm tracked southeast at roughly 15 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.
Hail was reported over 43 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Firstview — beyond Cheyenne Wells itself.
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.
$14M
Potential roof exposure — 1,188 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Cheyenne Wells storm history — this Jun 26, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.
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7 recorded storm days in Cheyenne Wells, CO
Jul 27, 2026
0.5"
Jul 7, 2026
1"
Jul 1, 2026
1.75"
Jun 21, 2026
1.5"
Jun 20, 2026
1.75"
May 29, 2026
2.25"