Hail in Fort Lupton, CO on May 24, 2023
Radar-estimated up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
Weather radar estimated hail of up to 1.25" (half dollar size) over Fort Lupton between 3:00 PM and 3:09 PM, from 8 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 half dollar-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 May 24
Other hail days in Fort Lupton
- August 22, 2026radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size) · 1 report
- June 8, 2026ground reports · 1 report
- June 3, 2026ground reports · 1 report
- August 1, 2025ground reports · 2 reports
- July 24, 2025radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- June 28, 2023radar up to 2.5" (tennis ball size) · 2 reports
- June 21, 2023radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
- May 26, 2023radar up to 1" (quarter 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.