Hail in Mount Lemmon · Aug 21, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Mount Lemmon that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Aug 21, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 4th most severe storm Mount Lemmon has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Mount Lemmon saw the hail — from two instruments
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.
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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 21, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Mount Lemmon, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Aug 21, 2026 sits in Mount Lemmon's hail record.
This was Mount Lemmon's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 14 days after the Aug 7, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Mount Lemmon at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 21, 2026 convective day was bigger than Mount Lemmon: the same system put hail over 659 other tracked cities, 7 of them in Arizona. Nearest: Tucson (12 miles west, up to 0.75"); Mammoth (22 miles northeast, up to 0.5"); Vail (23 miles southeast, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 5 Mount Lemmon storm dates 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
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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Mount Lemmon. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Mount Lemmon 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
Mount Lemmon hail history
Other storms in Mount Lemmon.
Estimated-size surface Aug 7, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 3, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 24, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 11, 2026
2.5"Take your next area into the field.
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