Hail in Fort Carson, CO on August 16, 2026
Radar-estimated up to 3.5" (teacup size)
Weather radar estimated hail of up to 3.5" (teacup size) over Fort Carson between 1:56 PM and 2:27 PM, from 13 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 teacup-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 August 16
- Raymer (New Raymer), CO · Aug 16, 2026radar up to 3.25" (teacup size)
- Colorado Springs, CO · Aug 16, 2026radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
- Elizabeth, CO · Aug 16, 2026radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- Beulah Valley, CO · Aug 16, 2026radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- Ponderosa Park, CO · Aug 16, 2026radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
Other hail days in Fort Carson
- August 22, 2026radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
- August 19, 2026radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- August 24, 2025radar up to 1.75" (golf ball size)
- July 31, 2025radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- July 16, 2025ground reports · 1 report
- May 30, 2025radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
- September 7, 2024radar up to 1.75" (golf ball size)
- July 7, 2024radar up to 2.75" (baseball 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.