“Hail started around 8 and would continue for about 15 minutes. Accumulating hail occurred as well. Hail started small but would eventually peak at the size of quarters. (AMA)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Canyon · May 22, 2026
Convective day · May 22, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 5th most severe storm Canyon 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
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 65 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Canyon 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.
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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for May 22, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Canyon, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where May 22, 2026 sits in Canyon's hail record.
This was Canyon's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 24 days after the Apr 28, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 12 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Canyon at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The May 22, 2026 convective day was bigger than Canyon: the same system put hail over 417 other tracked cities, 224 of them in Texas. Nearest: Amarillo (7 miles north, up to 1.75"); Wildorado (21 miles west, up to 1"); Nazareth (40 miles southwest, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 12 Canyon 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.
Hail reports
1 reportDamage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Canyon roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$21M
Potential roof exposure — 1,731 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 9 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$135K
Close just 0.5% of the 1,731 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
May 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around May 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 $364 on top of the $150 plan.
Canyon hail history
Other storms in Canyon.
Estimated-size surface Sep 10, 2026
2.25"
Estimated-size surface Aug 20, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 6, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 24, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 12, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 4, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 1, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 23, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 13, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Apr 28, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 3, 2026
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