Hail in Colorado Springs · Sep 22, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Colorado Springs that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Sep 22, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 18th most severe storm Colorado Springs has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 47 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Colorado Springs saw the hail — from two instruments
Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.
Estimated size field Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 22, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Colorado Springs, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Sep 22, 2026 sits in Colorado Springs's hail record.
This was Colorado Springs's 22nd recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the Sep 20, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 18th of the 22 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Colorado Springs at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Sep 22, 2026 convective day was bigger than Colorado Springs: the same system put hail over 97 other tracked cities, 1 of them in Colorado. Nearest: Trinidad (98 miles south, up to 0.5"); Navajo Dam (202 miles southwest, up to 0.5"); Blanco (210 miles southwest, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 22 Colorado Springs storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Colorado Springs for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Colorado Springs roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$2.7M
Potential roof exposure — 226 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 1 job
- Illustrative work
- ~$15K
Close just 0.5% of the 226 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.
Claim window
September 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around September 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $47 on top of the $150 plan.
Colorado Springs hail history
Other storms in Colorado Springs.
Estimated-size surface Sep 20, 2026
2"
Estimated-size surface Aug 23, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 22, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 20, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Aug 19, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Aug 16, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 15, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 31, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 28, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 27, 2026
NEXRAD surface Jul 24, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 22, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 10, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 7, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jul 5, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 4, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 23, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 22, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 6, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 1, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface May 29, 2026
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