Hail in Colby · Sep 4, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Colby that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Sep 4, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 18th most severe storm Colby 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
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Colby 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.
Estimated size field 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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 4, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Colby, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Sep 4, 2026 sits in Colby's hail record.
This was Colby's 17th recorded hail day, arriving 15 days after the Aug 20, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 18th of the 18 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Colby at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Sep 4, 2026 convective day was bigger than Colby: the same system put hail over 482 other tracked cities, 2 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Winona (21 miles south, up to 1"); Beaver City (88 miles northeast, up to 2"); Stamford (95 miles northeast, up to 2").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 18 Colby 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Colby. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Colby roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Estimated-size surface Sep 10, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 20, 2026
3.25"
Estimated-size surface Aug 14, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 13, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 30, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 27, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 9, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 3, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 1, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 30, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 24, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 21, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jun 20, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 1, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface May 29, 2026
2.25"
Estimated-size surface May 16, 2026
2.75"
Estimated-size surface Apr 11, 2026
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