Tornado Rating unknown
3 WSW Willard Logan County
“[Landspout] (BOU)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Merino Jun 22, 2026
Hit 42 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.25" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Merino this day.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm — see the ground reports below.
Largest hailstone
1.25"
≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
599
Ground reports
3
1 hail · 1 wind · 1 tornadoThe 2nd most severe storm Merino 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.
4.3 /10
- Hail size
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 56 /100
- Ground truth
- 67 /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 Merino 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.
Radar-estimated hail size
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.
Max size
1.25"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 22, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Merino, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jun 22, 2026 sits in Merino's hail record
This was Merino's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 14 days after the Jun 8, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Merino at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 22, 2026 convective day was bigger than Merino: the same system put hail over 258 other tracked cities, 22 of them in Colorado. Nearest: Sterling (15 miles northeast, up to 2.75"); Atwood (15 miles southeast, up to 2.75"); Padroni (25 miles north, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills from Merino's Jun 22, 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.
Tornado reports
1 reportHail reports
1 report Hail size 3"
6 WSW North Sterling Re Logan County
“(BOU)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind reports
1 report Wind gust 67 mph
4 NNW Pawnee Pass Logan County
“(BOU)”
— 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
The storm tracked southwest at roughly 20 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.
Hail was reported over 49 minutes, from to .
Reports came from North Sterling Re, Pawnee Pass, and Willard — beyond Merino itself.
What 1.25" hail means for Merino 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
$7.2M
Potential roof exposure — 599 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
3 jobs
Illustrative work
~$45K
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 Merino on the live map
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Merino hail history
← All hail in Merino 8 recorded storm days in Merino, CO
Other storms in Merino
Jul 28, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 22, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 4, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 30, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 24, 2026
2" Estimated 2"
1
ground report 
Jun 8, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 16, 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.