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Hail in Maxwell Jun 5, 2026

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 9 hail signatures up to 0.75", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.5" aloft.

Largest hailstone

0.75"

≈ penny to nickel · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint

13

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 3rd most severe storm Maxwell 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.

1.7 /10
Hail size
19 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
23 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Maxwell 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.

NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Maxwell, NM on Jun 5, 2026

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 0.75" Detections 9
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Maxwell, NM on Jun 5, 2026

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"
The storm in context

Where Jun 5, 2026 sits in Maxwell's hail record

This was Maxwell's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the Jun 3, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Maxwell at 0.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jun 5, 2026 convective day was bigger than Maxwell: the same system put hail over 440 other tracked cities, 23 of them in New Mexico. Nearest: Raton (18 miles north, up to 0"); Des Moines (37 miles east, up to 1"); Wagon Mound (40 miles south, up to 1.5").

These maps are stills from Maxwell's Jun 5, 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.

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.

For this storm over Maxwell, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.

Near the severe threshold

What 0.75" hail means for Maxwell 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

$156K

Potential roof exposure — 13 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around June 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over Maxwell on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Maxwell storm history — this Jun 5, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.

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Maxwell hail history

4 recorded storm days in Maxwell, NM

← All hail in Maxwell

Other storms in Maxwell

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.