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Hail in Silver Springs · Oct 5, 2026

Hit 17 days ago

The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Silver Springs 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 · Oct 5, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The most severe storm Silver Springs 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 Silver Springs saw the hail — from two instruments

Oct 5, 2026 · Silver Springs, 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 Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Silver Springs, NV on Oct 5, 2026 Estimated size field

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 0.5"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Oct 5, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Silver Springs, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Oct 5, 2026 sits in Silver Springs's hail record.

This was Silver Springs's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 53 days after the Aug 13, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 3 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Silver Springs at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Oct 5, 2026 convective day was bigger than Silver Springs: the same system put hail over 2 other tracked cities, 2 of them in Nevada. Nearest: Yerington (10 miles south, up to 0.75"); Fallon (24 miles northeast, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 3 Silver Springs 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.

The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Silver Springs. 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 Silver Springs 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

Silver Springs hail history

3 recorded storm days in Silver Springs, 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 Oct 6, 2026.