Wind gust 63 mph
Raton Crews Airport Colfax County
“ASOS station KRTN Raton Crews Airport. (ABQ)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Raton Jul 29, 2026
Hit 5 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 15 hail signatures up to 1.25", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.5" aloft.
Largest hailstone
1.25"
≈ half-dollar · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
18
Ground reports
1
1 windThe 3rd most severe storm Raton 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.
2.8 /10
- Hail size
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 26 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Raton 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
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
15
Radar-estimated hail size
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"
Where Jul 29, 2026 sits in Raton's hail record
This was Raton's 8th recorded hail day, arriving 25 days after the Jul 4, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Raton at 1.25" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 29, 2026 convective day was bigger than Raton: the same system put hail over 359 other tracked cities, 12 of them in New Mexico. Nearest: Maxwell (18 miles south, up to 1.75"); Walsenburg (61 miles northwest, up to 1"); Rye (80 miles northwest, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills from Raton's Jul 29, 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.
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.
Wind reports
1 report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Reports came from Raton Crews Airport — beyond Raton itself.
What 1.25" hail means for Raton roofs
Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$216K
Potential roof exposure — 18 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage. Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Raton on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Raton storm history — this Jul 29, 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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Raton hail history
← All hail in Raton 10 recorded storm days in Raton, NM
Other storms in Raton
Jul 31, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 30, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 4, 2026
0.5" Signatures 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 26, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 24, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 12, 2026
1.5" Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 5, 2026
Jun 3, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 11, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed
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.