Hail size 2.5"
6 N Wild Horse Cheyenne County
“Social media report of tennis ball size hail north of Wild Horse... CO. (GLD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Cheyenne
Hail in Wild Horse · Sep 20, 2026
Hit 1 day ago
The estimated-size surface reached 2.25" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Wild Horse that day. At 2.25" — tennis ball — this is a severe hail signal associated with roof damage. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 2.25" ≈ tennis ball · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 130
Ground reports 2 2 hail
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Sep 20, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
Wild Horse's only recorded storm in the last 12 months
Composite score · 4.9 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
4.9 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 56 /100
- Homes exposed
- 42 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Wild Horse saw the hail — from two instruments
Sep 20, 2026 · Wild Horse, CO
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 Surface resolved
Estimated size field 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 Sep 20, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Wild Horse, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Sep 20, 2026 sits in Wild Horse's hail record.
This was Wild Horse's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 1 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Wild Horse at 2.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Sep 20, 2026 convective day was bigger than Wild Horse: the same system put hail over 253 other tracked cities, 33 of them in Colorado. Nearest: Hugo (17 miles northwest, up to 2.5"); Kit Carson (19 miles southeast, up to 2.25"); Stratton (28 miles northeast, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 1 Wild Horse storm date 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
2 reports filed with the NWS
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
2 reports Hail size 2.75"
4 NE Wild Horse Cheyenne County
“Social media reports of baseball size hail... some hailstones potentially larger. Damaged windshield of a spotters vehicle. (GLD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Severe hail signal
What 2.25" hail means for Wild Horse roofs.
Two-inch-plus hail is capable of puncturing shingles, breaking skylights or windows, and heavily denting soft materials. The strongest radar bands warrant prompt inspection, but neither the signal nor the footprint confirms damage at a specific address.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
130 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$1.6M
Potential roof exposure — 130 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 1 job
- Illustrative work
- ~$15K
Close just 0.5% of the 130 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
September 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around September 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 $27 on top of the $150 plan.
Wild Horse hail history
Wild Horse's hail record.
1 recorded storm day in Wild Horse, CO
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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Sep 21, 2026.