Hail size 1.5"
12 SSW Stratton Kit Carson County
“Twitter report: lots of quarter and ping pong sized hail. Time and location estimated from radar. (GLD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Stratton Jun 8, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 4", and the radar-estimated size reached 2.5" aloft. At 4" — softball or larger — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
4"
≈ softball or larger · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
762
Ground reports
4
4 hailThe most severe storm Stratton 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.
8.4 /10
- Hail size
- 100 /100
- Homes exposed
- 58 /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 Stratton 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.
NEXRAD radar signatures
Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
Max size
4"
Detections
0
Radar-estimated hail size
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.
Max size
2.5"
Where Jun 8, 2026 sits in Stratton's hail record
This was Stratton's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 22 days after the May 17, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Stratton at 4" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jun 8, 2026 convective day was bigger than Stratton: the same system put hail over 359 other tracked cities, 49 of them in Colorado. Nearest: Vona (8 miles west, up to 2.5"); Bethune (17 miles northeast, up to 4"); Seibert (17 miles northwest, up to 2.5").
These maps are stills from Stratton's Jun 8, 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.
Hail reports
4 reports Hail size 3"
9 N Stratton Kit Carson County
“Delayed report of a picture of near 3 inch hail measured with a ruler behind the hail core of the storm. (GLD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.75"
8 N Stratton Kit Carson County
“Report from mPING: Golf Ball (1.75 in.). (GLD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.75"
8 N Stratton Kit Carson County
“mPing Report; time estimated from radar. (GLD)”
— 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 south at roughly 5 mph, based on the timing of ground reports.
Hail was reported over 172 minutes, from to .
What 4" hail means for Stratton 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
$9.1M
Potential roof exposure — 762 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
4 jobs
Illustrative work
~$60K
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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Stratton hail history
← All hail in Stratton 10 recorded storm days in Stratton, CO
Other storms in Stratton
Jul 9, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 7, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 3, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 30, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 26, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 23, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 22, 2026
3" Estimated 3"
8
ground reports 
May 17, 2026
3" Signatures 3" Estimated 1.75"
1
ground report 
May 16, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
1
ground report
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.