Hail in Willcox · Sep 14, 2026
Convective day · Sep 14, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 13th most severe storm Willcox 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 Willcox 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 Sep 14, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Willcox, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Sep 14, 2026 sits in Willcox's hail record.
This was Willcox's 15th recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the Sep 12, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 13th of the 15 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Willcox at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Sep 14, 2026 convective day was bigger than Willcox: the same system put hail over 110 other tracked cities, 16 of them in Arizona. Nearest: Cochise (28 miles south, up to 0.5"); Dragoon (35 miles south, up to 0.5"); Pearce (42 miles south, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 15 Willcox 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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Willcox for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Willcox 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
Willcox hail history
Other storms in Willcox.
Estimated-size surface Sep 12, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Sep 11, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Sep 9, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 10, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 7, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Aug 5, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Aug 3, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jul 24, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jul 20, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 19, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 14, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 12, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 11, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 3, 2026
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