Hail in Prescott · Jul 19, 2026
Convective day · Jul 19, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 3rd most severe storm Prescott 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
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 74 /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 Prescott saw the hail — from two instruments
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
Estimated size field The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 19, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Prescott, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Jul 19, 2026 sits in Prescott's hail record.
This was Prescott's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 7 days after the Jul 12, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 14 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Prescott at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 19, 2026 convective day was bigger than Prescott: the same system put hail over 351 other tracked cities, 16 of them in Arizona. Nearest: Chino Valley (15 miles north, up to 0.75"); Sedona (44 miles northeast, up to 0.5"); Munds Park (48 miles northeast, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 14 Prescott 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 Prescott. 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.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1.25" hail means for Prescott roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$59M
Potential roof exposure — 4,924 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 25 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$375K
Close just 0.5% of the 4,924 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.
Claim window
July 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 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 $1,034 on top of the $150 plan.
Prescott hail history
Other storms in Prescott.
Estimated-size surface Sep 13, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 29, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 23, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 20, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 14, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Aug 12, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 8, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Aug 6, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 23, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 20, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 12, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 15, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 14, 2026
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