Hail in Melrose · Aug 20, 2026
NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0"; the estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Aug 20, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 6th most severe storm Melrose 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 Melrose 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 signature field NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.
Estimated size field 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.
The storm in context
Where Aug 20, 2026 sits in Melrose's hail record.
This was Melrose's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 19 days after the Aug 1, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Melrose at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 20, 2026 convective day was bigger than Melrose: the same system put hail over 640 other tracked cities, 4 of them in New Mexico. Nearest: Friona (61 miles east, up to 0.75"); Hereford (78 miles northeast, up to 0.75"); Wildorado (103 miles northeast, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 8 Melrose 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Melrose. 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 Melrose 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
Melrose hail history
Other storms in Melrose.
Estimated-size surface Aug 26, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 1, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 12, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 4, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jul 1, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 19, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 2, 2026
1.25"The next storm won’t wait for you.
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