Hail in Aurora, CO on July 4, 2023
Radar-estimated up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
Weather radar estimated hail of up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size) over Aurora between 8:12 PM and 8:20 PM, from 5 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 ping-pong ball-size hail does to a roof
Hail in this range commonly bruises asphalt shingles and knocks off the protective granules. The roof may look fine from the street and still have lost years of life; soft metals like vents and gutters usually show the dents first. 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 4
- Milliken, CO · Jul 4, 2023radar up to 2.5" (tennis ball size)
- Colorado Springs, CO · Jul 4, 2023radar up to 2.25" (hen egg size) · 3 reports
- Cimarron Hills, CO · Jul 4, 2023radar up to 1.75" (golf ball size) · 1 report
- Berthoud, CO · Jul 4, 2023radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
- Littleton, CO · Jul 4, 2023radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
- Brook Forest, CO · Jul 4, 2023radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
- Ken Caryl, CO · Jul 4, 2023radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
- Midland, CO · Jul 4, 2023radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
- Centennial, CO · Jul 4, 2023radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- Hartman, CO · Jul 4, 2023radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- Thornton, CO · Jul 4, 2023radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- Watkins, CO · Jul 4, 2023radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
Other hail days in Aurora
- August 26, 2026radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size) · 3 reports
- August 22, 2026radar up to 1" (quarter size) · 1 report
- August 15, 2026radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- August 13, 2026radar up to 2.25" (hen egg size) · 2 reports
- July 29, 2026radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- June 1, 2026radar up to 2.25" (hen egg size) · 4 reports
- August 10, 2025radar up to 2" (hen egg size)
- July 6, 2025radar up to 1" (quarter size) · 1 report
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.