Hail in Joes, CO on August 5, 2023
Radar-estimated up to 2.25" (hen egg size)
Weather radar estimated hail of up to 2.25" (hen egg size) over Joes between 3:06 AM and 3:28 AM, from 4 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 hen egg-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 5
- Security-Widefield, CO · Aug 5, 2023radar up to 3.5" (teacup size) · 2 reports
- Fountain, CO · Aug 5, 2023radar up to 2.5" (tennis ball size) · 1 report
- Colorado Springs, CO · Aug 5, 2023radar up to 2.25" (hen egg size) · 5 reports
- Loveland, CO · Aug 5, 2023radar up to 1.75" (golf ball size) · 2 reports
- Black Forest, CO · Aug 5, 2023radar up to 1.75" (golf ball size)
- Fort Carson, CO · Aug 5, 2023radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
- Olney Springs, CO · Aug 5, 2023radar up to 1" (quarter size)
- Fowler, CO · Aug 5, 2023ground reports · 1 report
- Air Force Academy, CO · Aug 5, 2023ground reports · 2 reports
- Vernon, CO · Aug 5, 2023ground reports · 1 report
Other hail days in Joes
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.