Hail in Mead, CO on May 9, 2023
Radar-estimated up to 3.5" (teacup size)
Weather radar estimated hail of up to 3.5" (teacup size) over Mead between 11:02 PM and 11:42 PM, from 29 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 May 9
- Frederick, CO · May 9, 2023radar up to 3.75" (teacup size) · 2 reports
- Firestone, CO · May 9, 2023radar up to 3.5" (teacup size) · 2 reports
- Erie, CO · May 9, 2023radar up to 2.75" (baseball size) · 2 reports
- Longmont, CO · May 9, 2023radar up to 2.75" (baseball size) · 2 reports
- Dacono, CO · May 9, 2023radar up to 2.25" (hen egg size)
- Milliken, CO · May 9, 2023radar up to 1.75" (golf ball size)
- Thornton, CO · May 9, 2023radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size) · 2 reports
- Brighton, CO · May 9, 2023radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size) · 1 report
- Commerce City, CO · May 9, 2023radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size) · 1 report
- Severance, CO · May 9, 2023radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- Fort Lupton, CO · May 9, 2023radar up to 1" (quarter size)
- Windsor, CO · May 9, 2023radar up to 1" (quarter size)
Other hail days in Mead
- June 17, 2025radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
- May 18, 2025radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size) · 1 report
- July 20, 2024radar up to 1.75" (golf ball size)
- June 20, 2024radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- June 21, 2023radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
- May 31, 2023radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- May 27, 2023radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- August 14, 2022radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball 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.