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Hail in Searchlight · Aug 12, 2026

Hit 31 days ago

The estimated-size surface reached 0.75" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Searchlight that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 0.75" ≈ penny to nickel · radar-estimated size aloft

Homes in the hail footprint 3

Ground reports 1 1 wind

Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only

Convective day · Aug 12, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

Searchlight's only recorded storm in the last 12 months

Composite score · 1.7 / 10

Storm severity score

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

1.7 /10

Peak hail signal: 19 /100
Homes exposed: 12 /100
Ground truth: 17 /100

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Searchlight saw the hail — from two instruments

Aug 12, 2026 · Searchlight, NV

We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Searchlight, NV on Aug 12, 2026 — Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.

Max size 0.75"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 12, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Searchlight, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Aug 12, 2026 sits in Searchlight's hail record.

This was Searchlight's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 1 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Searchlight at 0.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Aug 12, 2026 convective day was bigger than Searchlight: the same system put hail over 507 other tracked cities, 5 of them in Nevada. Nearest: Las Vegas (53 miles north, up to 0.5"); Yucca (64 miles southeast, up to 0.75"); Needles (69 miles south, up to 1").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 1 Searchlight storm date 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

1 report 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.

Wind reports

1 report

Wind gust 81 mph

Cottonwood Cove Clark County

11:15 PM UTC

“Cottonwood Cove HADS sensor reports peak wind of 81 MPH. (VEF)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Storm forensics

How the storm moved

Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports

Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.

Reports came from Cottonwood Cove — beyond Searchlight itself.

Near the severe threshold

What 0.75" hail means for Searchlight roofs.

A signal this size sits near the National Weather Service severe threshold. Aging shingles and soft metals such as vents, flashing, and gutters may be more vulnerable; roof age, wind, and material condition all matter, and only an inspection can confirm damage.

Radar reading · not confirmed damage

Roofing exposure

What this storm is worth to a roofer.

3 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$36K

Potential roof exposure — 3 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Claim window

August 2028

Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around August 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $1 on top of the $150 plan.

Searchlight hail history

1 recorded storm day in Searchlight, NV

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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 13, 2026.