Wind gust 63 mph
1 SE Phoenix Mesa Gatew Maricopa County
“The automated weather station at Mesa Gateway airport reported a maximum wind gust of 63 mph. AWOS station KIWA Mesa Gateway Airport. (PSR)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Maricopa
Hail in Mesa · Aug 19, 2026
Hit 24 days ago
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Mesa that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 0.5" ≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 2
Ground reports 1 1 wind
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Aug 19, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
Mesa's only recorded storm in the last 12 months
Composite score · 1.2 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
1.2 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 10 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Mesa saw the hail — from two instruments
Aug 19, 2026 · Mesa, AZ
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Max size
0.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 19, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Mesa, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Aug 19, 2026 sits in Mesa's hail record.
This was Mesa's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 1 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Mesa at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 19, 2026 convective day was bigger than Mesa: the same system put hail over 496 other tracked cities, 25 of them in Arizona. Nearest: San Tan Valley (6 miles east, up to 0.5"); Florence (22 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Scottsdale (36 miles north, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 1 Mesa storm date on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
Ground reports
What people on the ground reported
1 report filed with the NWS
These are storm reports filed with the National Weather Service and released through the NOAA Storm Prediction Center — public-domain observations from spotters, the public, and NWS surveys. We quote each one exactly as filed.
Wind reports
1 reportStorm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Reports came from Phoenix Mesa Gatew — beyond Mesa itself.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Mesa roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
2 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$24K
Potential roof exposure — 2 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Claim window
August 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around August 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $0 on top of the $150 plan.
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A storm day here is a convective day — it runs from noon to noon
UTC, so late-night hail is grouped with the afternoon storm that
spawned it rather than split across two calendar dates. Ground
reports are public-domain observations from the NOAA Storm
Prediction Center. Radar tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Aug 20, 2026.