Storm report · Kiowa

Hail in Eads Jun 26, 2026

Hit 38 days ago

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.

Largest hailstone

2.5"

≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint

177

Ground reports

1

1 hail
Severity

The most severe storm Eads 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.

5.1 /10
Hail size
63 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
45 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
17 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Eads 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
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Eads, CO on Jun 26, 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 0
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Eads, CO on Jun 26, 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 1.5"
The storm in context

Where Jun 26, 2026 sits in Eads's hail record

This was Eads's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 28 days after the May 29, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Eads at 2.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jun 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Eads: the same system put hail over 440 other tracked cities, 51 of them in Colorado. Nearest: Mc Clave (24 miles south, up to 1"); Lamar (28 miles south, up to 1"); Cheyenne Wells (29 miles northeast, up to 2.5").

These maps are stills from Eads'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.

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.

Hail reports

1 report
Hail size 1.5"
9 NW Eads Kiowa County

“Damage to car windshield. (PUB)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report
Severe, roof-replacing hail

What 2.5" hail means for Eads 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

$2.1M

Potential roof exposure — 177 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 177 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.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around June 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over Eads on the live map

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Eads hail history

2 recorded storm days in Eads, CO

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Other storms in Eads

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 2, 2026.