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Hail in Grants · Jul 22, 2026

NEXRAD logged 2 hail signatures up to 1.25"; the estimated-size surface had no signal that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 1.25" ≈ half-dollar · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint 0
Ground reports 0 none filed
Radar surfaces 1 NEXRAD only

Convective day · Jul 22, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 3rd most severe storm Grants has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 1.9 / 10
Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

1.9 /10
Peak hail signal
31 /100

Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.

Homes exposed
0 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Grants saw the hail — from two instruments

Jul 22, 2026 · Grants, 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.

NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
Map image is still rendering for this surface.

The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.

Max size 1.25" Detections 2

Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Jul 22, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jul 22, 2026 sits in Grants's hail record.

This was Grants's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the Jul 20, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Grants at 1.25" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jul 22, 2026 convective day was bigger than Grants: the same system put hail over 158 other tracked cities, 5 of them in New Mexico. Nearest: Cubero (13 miles southeast, up to 1.25"); Pueblo Of Acoma (24 miles east, up to 1.25"); Yatahey (59 miles northwest, up to 0.75").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 6 Grants 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

No reports 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.

Nobody on the ground filed a report over Grants 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.

Damage-capable hail signal

What 1.25" hail means for Grants 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

Grants hail history

6 recorded storm days in Grants, NM

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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 3, 2026.