Hail size 1"
Wild Horse Cheyenne County
“spotter network report of 3 miles worth of quarter size hail near Wild Horse. (GLD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Kit Carson Jul 10, 2026
Hit 24 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.75" aloft.
Largest hailstone
1"
≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
348
Ground reports
2
1 hail · 1 windThe 3rd most severe storm Kit Carson 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.
3.3 /10
- Hail size
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 51 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Kit Carson 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
Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
Max size
1"
Detections
0
Radar-estimated hail size
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
0.75"
Where Jul 10, 2026 sits in Kit Carson's hail record
This was Kit Carson's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 9 days after the Jul 1, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Kit Carson at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 10, 2026 convective day was bigger than Kit Carson: the same system put hail over 682 other tracked cities, 34 of them in Colorado. Nearest: Haswell (19 miles southwest, up to 1"); Sheridan Lake (26 miles southeast, up to 1.25"); Karval (38 miles west, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills from Kit Carson's Jul 10, 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.
Hail reports
1 reportWind reports
1 report Wind gust 60 mph
3 WNW Kit Carson Cheyenne County
“estimated 60 to 65 mph winds along with nickel sized hail. (GLD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Hail was reported over 17 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Wild Horse — beyond Kit Carson itself.
What 1" hail means for Kit Carson roofs
Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$4.2M
Potential roof exposure — 348 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
2 jobs
Illustrative work
~$30K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
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Kit Carson hail history
← All hail in Kit Carson 7 recorded storm days in Kit Carson, CO
Other storms in Kit Carson
Jul 29, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 1, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 21, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 8, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 2"
3
ground reports 
May 29, 2026
2.25" Signatures 2.25" Estimated 1.25"
2
ground reports 
May 9, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed
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 3, 2026.