Hail in Arvada, CO on July 31, 2023
Radar-estimated up to 1.75" (golf ball size)
Weather radar estimated hail of up to 1.75" (golf ball size) over Arvada between 6:22 PM and 6:34 PM, from 3 separate radar hail signatures inside the town. No spotter or NOAA ground report was filed inside the town that day, which is common: most hail falls where nobody is measuring it.
What golf ball-size hail does to a roof
Hail this large routinely cracks and punctures asphalt shingles, dents metal vents and gutters, and can break skylights. Damage is often visible from the ground, but bruised shingles that look intact can still fail early. Radar describes the storm, not your shingles: the only way to know what a particular roof took is an inspection. Most homeowner policies set a deadline for reporting storm damage, so check your policy.
Every home inside a storm's radar footprint, scored by roof age, material and hail history, sold to a few roofers only so you are not the twentieth truck on the street.
Other Colorado towns hit on July 31
- Castle Rock, CO · Jul 31, 2023radar up to 2" (hen egg size) · 1 report
- Colorado Springs, CO · Jul 31, 2023radar up to 2" (hen egg size) · 3 reports
- Black Forest, CO · Jul 31, 2023radar up to 1.75" (golf ball size) · 1 report
- Elbert, CO · Jul 31, 2023radar up to 1.75" (golf ball size)
- Fort Carson, CO · Jul 31, 2023radar up to 1.75" (golf ball size)
- Elizabeth, CO · Jul 31, 2023radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
- Fort Collins, CO · Jul 31, 2023radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size) · 1 report
- Ponderosa Park, CO · Jul 31, 2023radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
- Sedalia, CO · Jul 31, 2023radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
- Air Force Academy, CO · Jul 31, 2023radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- Cotopaxi, CO · Jul 31, 2023radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- Louviers, CO · Jul 31, 2023radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
Other hail days in Arvada
- July 24, 2026radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- June 26, 2026radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- June 8, 2026radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size) · 6 reports
- July 6, 2025radar up to 1" (quarter size)
- June 29, 2024ground reports · 3 reports
- June 20, 2024radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- July 4, 2023radar up to 1" (quarter size)
- June 30, 2023radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
Radar sizes are estimates from NEXRAD hail signatures (NOAA Severe Weather Data Inventory) for the largest stones in a storm cell, not a measurement at any one home. Ground reports are National Weather Service local storm reports and the NOAA Storm Events Database, as filed. Town-level data only; this page shows no addresses and no homeowner information.