Storm report · Logan

Hail in Sterling Jun 22, 2026

Hit 42 days ago

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Sterling this day. At 2.75" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

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Largest hailstone

2.75"

≈ baseball · radar-estimated size aloft

Homes in the hail footprint

9,615

Ground reports

6 hail · 3 wind

Severity

The 2nd most severe storm Sterling 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.

7.6 /10

Hail size: 69 /100
Homes exposed: 80 /100
Ground truth: 100 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Sterling 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 map of the storm over Sterling, CO on Jun 22, 2026 — 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 2.75"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 22, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Sterling, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jun 22, 2026 sits in Sterling's hail record

This was Sterling's 11th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Jun 21, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 18 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Sterling at 2.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jun 22, 2026 convective day was bigger than Sterling: the same system put hail over 258 other tracked cities, 22 of them in Colorado. Nearest: Atwood (14 miles south, up to 2.75"); Merino (15 miles southwest, up to 1.25"); Padroni (19 miles northwest, up to 1.75").

These maps are stills from Sterling'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.

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.

Hail reports

6 reports

Hail size 3"

6 WSW North Sterling Re Logan County

10:23 PM UTC

“(BOU)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 1.75"

1 S Atwood Logan County

11:08 PM UTC

“(BOU)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 3"

4 W Sterling Logan County

10:55 PM UTC

“(BOU)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 2.5"

1 S Sterling Logan County

11:07 PM UTC

“(BOU)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 2.5"

2 SSE Sterling Logan County

10:58 PM UTC

“(BOU)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Hail size 1.75"

1 NE Sterling Logan County

10:49 PM UTC

“(BOU)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Wind reports

3 reports

Wind gust 59 mph

2 ESE Sterling Logan County

10:29 PM UTC

“(BOU)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Wind gust 60 mph

1 NNE Atwood Logan County

10:57 PM UTC

“(BOU)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Wind gust 62 mph

Atwood Logan County

11:00 PM UTC

“(BOU)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Storm forensics

How the storm moved

The storm tracked south at roughly 20 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.

Hail was reported over 45 minutes, from 10:23 PM UTC to 11:08 PM UTC .

Reports came from North Sterling Re and Atwood — beyond Sterling itself.

Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.

Severe, roof-replacing hail

What 2.75" hail means for Sterling 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

$115M

Potential roof exposure — 9,615 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs

48 jobs

Illustrative work

~$720K

Close just 0.5% of the 9,615 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.

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Sterling hail history

18 recorded storm days in Sterling, CO

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