Hail in Fort Morgan Jul 9, 2026
Hit 25 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 46 hail signatures up to 2", and the radar-estimated size reached 1" aloft. At 2" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
2"
≈ tennis ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature26
0
none filedThe 6th most severe storm Fort Morgan has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 50 /100
- Homes exposed
- 29 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Fort Morgan 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.
The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.
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.
Where Jul 9, 2026 sits in Fort Morgan's hail record
This was Fort Morgan's 11th recorded hail day, arriving 5 days after the Jul 4, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 12 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Fort Morgan at 2" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 9, 2026 convective day was bigger than Fort Morgan: the same system put hail over 944 other tracked cities, 45 of them in Colorado. Nearest: Brush (17 miles northeast, up to 2.75"); Woodrow (19 miles southeast, up to 2.75"); Akron (35 miles east, up to 2").
These maps are stills from Fort Morgan's Jul 9, 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Fort Morgan. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.
What 2" hail means for Fort Morgan 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.
$312K
Potential roof exposure — 26 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Fort Morgan on the live map
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12 recorded storm days in Fort Morgan, CO
Other storms in Fort Morgan
Jul 28, 2026
3.75"
Jul 4, 2026
1.5"
Jul 3, 2026
1"
Jul 2, 2026
2.5"
Jun 30, 2026
1.75"
Jun 24, 2026
2.5"
Jun 23, 2026
2"
Jun 8, 2026
0.75"
Jun 6, 2026
1.25"
Jun 1, 2026
2.25"
May 29, 2026
0.5"