Hail in Old Town · Mar 6, 2026
Convective day · Mar 6, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 4th most severe storm Old Town has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 55 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Old Town saw the hail — from two instruments
Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.
Radar signature field NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.
Estimated size field Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.
The storm in context
Where Mar 6, 2026 sits in Old Town's hail record.
This was Old Town's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 4th of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Old Town at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Mar 6, 2026 convective day was bigger than Old Town: the same system put hail over 486 other tracked cities, 6 of them in Florida. Nearest: Trenton (21 miles northeast, up to 1"); Lee (55 miles north, up to 0.75"); Ocala (59 miles southeast, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 13 Old Town 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
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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Old Town for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Old Town roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$6.7M
Potential roof exposure — 562 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 3 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$45K
Close just 0.5% of the 562 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.
Claim window
March 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around March 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 $118 on top of the $150 plan.
Old Town hail history
Other storms in Old Town.
Estimated-size surface Aug 24, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 20, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 31, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 29, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 26, 2026
0.5"
NEXRAD surface Jul 25, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 17, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 11, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 10, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 30, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 25, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Apr 3, 2026
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