NEXRAD caught this storm: 0 hail signatures up to 0". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm — see the ground reports below.
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≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft0
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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.
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.
NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Apr 26, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
This was Cope's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 8th of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Cope at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Cope: the same system put hail over 710 other tracked cities, 3 of them in Colorado. Nearest: Joes (11 miles northeast, up to 0"); Woodrow (46 miles west, up to 1"); Strasburg (77 miles west, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from Cope's Apr 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.
“[Landspout] Corrects previous landspout report from 12 SW Joes. Spotter reports tornado 17 miles N of Seibert. Also mentioned other brief spin ups in area. (GLD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Reports came from Joes — beyond Cope itself.
Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Cope storm history — this Apr 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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8 recorded storm days in Cope, CO
Jul 28, 2026
1"
Jul 22, 2026
1"
Jul 9, 2026
0.5"
Jul 4, 2026
0.75"
Jul 3, 2026
1.75"
Jun 22, 2026
3"
May 21, 2026
1.75"