Hail in Olney Springs · Aug 26, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Olney Springs that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Aug 26, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 5th most severe storm Olney Springs has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Olney Springs saw the hail — from two instruments
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.
Estimated size field Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 26, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Olney Springs, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Aug 26, 2026 sits in Olney Springs's hail record.
This was Olney Springs's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 27 days after the Jul 30, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Olney Springs at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Olney Springs: the same system put hail over 440 other tracked cities, 39 of them in Colorado. Nearest: Penrose (57 miles west, up to 1.25"); Hugo (60 miles northeast, up to 1"); Walsenburg (65 miles southwest, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 6 Olney Springs storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
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.
For this storm over Olney Springs, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Olney Springs roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Olney Springs hail history
Other storms in Olney Springs.
Estimated-size surface Jul 30, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 29, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 28, 2026
Estimated-size surface Jun 22, 2026
2"
Estimated-size surface Apr 11, 2026
1.75"Take your next area into the field.
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