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Hail in Mescalero · Aug 28, 2026

Hit 15 days ago

The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Mescalero that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 0.5" ≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 0
Ground reports 0 none filed
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only

Convective day · Aug 28, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 11th most severe storm Mescalero has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 0.8 / 10
Storm severity score

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

0.8 /10
Peak hail signal
13 /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 Mescalero saw the hail — from two instruments

Aug 28, 2026 · Mescalero, 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.

Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Mescalero, NM on Aug 28, 2026 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.

Max size 0.5"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 28, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Mescalero, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Aug 28, 2026 sits in Mescalero's hail record.

This was Mescalero's 15th recorded hail day, arriving 9 days after the Aug 19, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 11th of the 15 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Mescalero at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Aug 28, 2026 convective day was bigger than Mescalero: the same system put hail over 185 other tracked cities. Nearest: Trinidad (263 miles north, up to 0.5"); Santa Anna (378 miles east, up to 0.5"); Richland Springs (413 miles east, up to 0.75").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 15 Mescalero 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.

For this storm over Mescalero, 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.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Mescalero 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

Mescalero hail history

Other storms in Mescalero.

15 recorded storm days in Mescalero, NM
← All hail in Mescalero
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Mescalero, NM on Aug 19, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Mescalero / NM

Aug 19, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Mescalero, NM on Aug 7, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Mescalero / NM

Aug 7, 2026

0.75"
Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Mescalero, NM on Aug 5, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Mescalero / NM

Aug 5, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Mescalero, NM on Aug 1, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Mescalero / NM

Aug 1, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Mescalero, NM on Jul 31, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Mescalero / NM

Jul 31, 2026

0.75"
Signatures 0.75" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Mescalero, NM on Jul 29, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Mescalero / NM

Jul 29, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Mescalero, NM on Jul 27, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Mescalero / NM

Jul 27, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Mescalero, NM on Jul 25, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Mescalero / NM

Jul 25, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Mescalero, NM on Jul 21, 2026 NEXRAD surface
Storm date Mescalero / NM

Jul 21, 2026

0.5"
Signatures 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Mescalero, NM on Jul 18, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Mescalero / NM

Jul 18, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Mescalero, NM on Jul 11, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Mescalero / NM

Jul 11, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Mescalero, NM on Jul 3, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Mescalero / NM

Jul 3, 2026

2"
Signatures 2" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Mescalero, NM on Jun 18, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Mescalero / NM

Jun 18, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Mescalero, NM on Jun 2, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Mescalero / NM

Jun 2, 2026

1.75"
Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →

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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 29, 2026.