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NWS Phoenix, October 21

THE GLENDALE AND PEORIA LINE: FIVE REPORTS IN NINE MINUTES

These are the reports the National Weather Service office in Phoenix logged on the west side of the October 21 storm. We’ve added the nearest major cross streets from each report’s coordinates. Those coordinates are rounded to about half a mile, so read every location as “roughly near.”

The storm built over this stretch first. The two quarter-size reports at 3:25 PM are the earliest hail of the afternoon, and over the next twenty minutes the storm pushed northeast through Moon Valley and Deer Valley. Our north Phoenix page covers that part, and the full two-day log is on the October 20–21 Phoenix storm page.

Reading The Log Honestly

“4 NE GLENDALE” ISN’T AN ADDRESS

The NWS doesn’t log hail by city limits. Each report gets a distance and direction from a fixed reference point, and “Glendale” and “Peoria” are two of those points. “4 NE Glendale” means about four miles northeast of that point. In this case that puts the day’s biggest stone near Peoria Avenue and 35th Avenue, an area most people would call Metrocenter, on the Phoenix side of the line.

That matters in two ways. If you live in Glendale proper and assumed the headline 2-inch report landed on your street, it may not have. The reports cluster east of 51st Avenue, and we haven’t seen a logged report from the older neighborhoods around downtown Glendale. The other side cuts the same way: these are point reports from people who stopped to measure, so a street with no pin can still have been hit. Hail falls in a swath, and five reports in nine minutes means a lot of ground in between.

For a claim, your insurer cares about the date and the damage, not which town’s name is on the report. If your car was parked anywhere between Camelback and Thunderbird, west of I-17, on Wednesday afternoon, check it. If you find dents, the date of loss is October 21, 2026.

What To Look For

QUARTERS TO A 2-INCH STONE: WHAT EACH SIZE DOES

Quarter-size (1.00″), along Cactus Road. Expect shallow, round dents on the flat panels: hood, roof and trunk lid. They’re easy to miss in midday sun. Look along the panel from a low angle early in the morning or under a garage light, and you’ll see the reflection ripple at each dent. These are usually clean paintless dent repair jobs.

Walnut-size (1.25″), near Thunderbird. Deeper dents, closer together, and the first real risk to roof rails, mirror caps and plastic trim. Check the top edges of the doors and the window moldings too.

2-inch stones, around Metrocenter. Hail this size can crack paint on the crown of a hood or roof, chip glass and break lamp lenses. Look for spiderweb lines in the clear coat, not just dents. Cracked panels need conventional repair rather than PDR, and the estimate should say which panels fall in which group before anything is filed.

The 60 mph gust near Camelback is a wind report, not hail. If a branch or debris hit your car in that wind, that’s storm damage too, and it usually falls under the same comprehensive coverage. Confirm with your carrier.