Wind gust 78 mph
4 NE South Valley Bernalillo County
“ASOS station KABQ Albuquerque Intl Sunport. (ABQ)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Albuquerque Jul 24, 2026
Hit 10 days agoNEXRAD caught this storm: 1 hail signature up to 0.75". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
Largest hailstone
0.75"
≈ penny to nickel · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
3,234
Ground reports
1
1 windThe most severe storm Albuquerque has seen in the last 12 months
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
3.1 /10
- Hail size
- 19 /100
- Homes exposed
- 70 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Albuquerque 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.
NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.
Max size
0.75"
Detections
1
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Jul 24, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 24, 2026 sits in Albuquerque's hail record
This was Albuquerque's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 197 days after the Jan 8, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 3 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Albuquerque at 0.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 24, 2026 convective day was bigger than Albuquerque: the same system put hail over 221 other tracked cities, 17 of them in New Mexico. Nearest: Tijeras (17 miles east, up to 1"); Cochiti Pueblo (36 miles north, up to 1.5"); Pena Blanca (38 miles northeast, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills from Albuquerque's Jul 24, 2026 storm. In the Overview app the same surfaces are live — radar updating in real time, radar-estimated hail size as it forms, and NWS spotter reports pinned where they're filed — with a radar replay you can scrub back over any past day.
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.
Wind reports
1 report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Reports came from South Valley — beyond Albuquerque itself.
What 0.75" hail means for Albuquerque roofs
Hail this size sits right at the edge of the National Weather Service severe threshold. Newer roofs usually shrug it off, but aging or already-worn shingles can bruise, and soft metals — vents, flashing, gutters — often show the first dents.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$39M
Potential roof exposure — 3,234 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
16 jobs
Illustrative work
~$240K
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.
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Albuquerque hail history
← All hail in Albuquerque 3 recorded storm days in Albuquerque, NM
Other storms in Albuquerque
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 surfaces are detections and estimates,
not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.