Storm report · Kiowa

Hail in Sheridan Lake Jun 21, 2026

Hit 43 days ago

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2.25" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Sheridan Lake this day. At 2.25" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

Largest hailstone

2.25"

≈ tennis ball · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

576

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 2nd most severe storm Sheridan Lake 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.

4.8 /10
Hail size
56 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
55 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Sheridan Lake saw the hail — from two instruments

Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.

Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Sheridan Lake, CO on Jun 21, 2026

Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.

Max size 2.25"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 21, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Sheridan Lake, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jun 21, 2026 sits in Sheridan Lake's hail record

This was Sheridan Lake's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Sheridan Lake at 2.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jun 21, 2026 convective day was bigger than Sheridan Lake: the same system put hail over 415 other tracked cities, 30 of them in Colorado. Nearest: Cheyenne Wells (21 miles north, up to 1.5"); Kit Carson (26 miles northwest, up to 1.25"); Tribune (28 miles east, up to 1").

These maps are stills from Sheridan Lake's Jun 21, 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.

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.

Nobody on the ground filed a report over Sheridan Lake for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.

Severe, roof-replacing hail

What 2.25" hail means for Sheridan Lake 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.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$6.9M

Potential roof exposure — 576 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
3 jobs
Illustrative work
~$45K
Close just 0.5% of the 576 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.
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 Sheridan Lake on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Sheridan Lake storm history — this Jun 21, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.

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Sheridan Lake hail history

6 recorded storm days in Sheridan Lake, CO

← All hail in Sheridan Lake

Other storms in Sheridan Lake

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.