Hail in Garfield · Sep 17, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Garfield that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Sep 17, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
Garfield's only recorded storm 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 Garfield saw the hail — from two instruments
Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.
Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 17, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Garfield, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Sep 17, 2026 sits in Garfield's hail record.
This was Garfield's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 1 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Garfield at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Sep 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Garfield: the same system put hail over 75 other tracked cities, 7 of them in New Mexico. Nearest: Hillsboro (7 miles south, up to 0.5"); Hatch (18 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Alamogordo (73 miles east, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 1 Garfield storm date 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 Garfield. 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 Garfield 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
Garfield hail history
Garfield's hail record.
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