Hail in Kiowa, CO on May 26, 2023
Radar-estimated up to 1.75" (golf ball size)
Weather radar estimated hail of up to 1.75" (golf ball size) over Kiowa between 4:25 PM and 4:32 PM, 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 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 May 26
- Arvada, CO · May 26, 2023radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size) · 1 report
- Colorado Springs, CO · May 26, 2023radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size) · 1 report
- Gilcrest, CO · May 26, 2023radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
- Greeley, CO · May 26, 2023radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
- Wheat Ridge, CO · May 26, 2023radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
- Falcon, CO · May 26, 2023radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
- Westminster, CO · May 26, 2023radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size) · 1 report
- Applewood, CO · May 26, 2023radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size) · 1 report
- Brighton, CO · May 26, 2023radar up to 1" (quarter size)
- Centennial, CO · May 26, 2023radar up to 1" (quarter size) · 1 report
- Fort Lupton, CO · May 26, 2023radar up to 1" (quarter size)
- Longmont, CO · May 26, 2023radar up to 1" (quarter size) · 2 reports
Other hail days in Kiowa
- July 28, 2026radar up to 1" (quarter size)
- May 9, 2026radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- September 16, 2025radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- August 9, 2025radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size) · 1 report
- May 24, 2025radar up to 3" (teacup size) · 1 report
- August 6, 2024radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- August 3, 2023radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- July 20, 2023radar up to 3" (teacup 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.