Wind gust 84 mph
1 E Clayton Union County
“ASOS station KCAO Clayton Muni Airpark. (ABQ)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Union
Hail in Clayton · Aug 25, 2026
Hit 18 days ago
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Clayton 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 0
Ground reports 1 1 wind
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Aug 25, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 5th most severe storm Clayton has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 1.0 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
1.0 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /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 Clayton saw the hail — from two instruments
Aug 25, 2026 · Clayton, NM
Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Max size
0.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 25, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Clayton, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Aug 25, 2026 sits in Clayton's hail record.
This was Clayton's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 9 days after the Aug 16, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Clayton at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 25, 2026 convective day was bigger than Clayton: the same system put hail over 205 other tracked cities, 7 of them in New Mexico. Nearest: Texline (16 miles southeast, up to 0.75"); Dalhart (44 miles southeast, up to 0.75"); Logan (77 miles south, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 7 Clayton 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
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 reportBelow the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Clayton 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
Clayton hail history
Other storms in Clayton.
7 recorded storm days in Clayton, NM
Estimated-size surface Storm date Clayton / NM
Aug 16, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Clayton / NM
Jul 9, 2026
0.5" Signatures 0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Clayton / NM
Jun 26, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Clayton / NM
Jun 9, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Clayton / NM
May 25, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Clayton / NM
May 23, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
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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 26, 2026.