“AWOS station KAPA 2 SSE Centennial. (BOU)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Parker · Aug 15, 2026
NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0"; the estimated-size surface reached 1.25" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
Convective day · Aug 15, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 4th most severe storm Parker 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
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 80 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Parker 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.
Radar signature field Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
Estimated size field 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.
The storm in context
Where Aug 15, 2026 sits in Parker's hail record.
This was Parker's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 17 days after the Jul 29, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Parker at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Parker: the same system put hail over 188 other tracked cities, 30 of them in Colorado. Nearest: Castle Rock (9 miles southwest, up to 1.25"); Littleton (16 miles west, up to 1.5"); Denver (21 miles northwest, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 9 Parker 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.
Wind reports
1 reportStorm forensics
How the storm moved
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Reports came from Lone Tree — beyond Parker itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1.25" hail means for Parker roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$118M
Potential roof exposure — 9,830 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 49 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$735K
Close just 0.5% of the 9,830 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.
Claim window
August 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around August 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $2,064 on top of the $150 plan.
Parker hail history
Other storms in Parker.
Estimated-size surface Sep 6, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 26, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 29, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jul 28, 2026
2.25"
NEXRAD surface Jul 25, 2026
0.5"
NEXRAD surface Jul 22, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 8, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jun 1, 2026
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