Hail in La Luz · Aug 7, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over La Luz that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Aug 7, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 4th most severe storm La Luz 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 La Luz saw the hail — from two instruments
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.
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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 7, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over La Luz, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Aug 7, 2026 sits in La Luz's hail record.
This was La Luz's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the Aug 5, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over La Luz at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 7, 2026 convective day was bigger than La Luz: the same system put hail over 709 other tracked cities, 16 of them in New Mexico. Nearest: Cloudcroft (6 miles east, up to 0.5"); Tularosa (9 miles northwest, up to 0.75"); Alamogordo (24 miles southwest, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 4 La Luz 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 La Luz 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 La Luz 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
La Luz hail history
Other storms in La Luz.
Estimated-size surface Aug 5, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 1, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jun 2, 2026
1.25"Take your next area into the field.
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