Hail in Villisca Mar 5, 2026
NEXRAD caught this storm: 0 hail signatures up to 0". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
0"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft0
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none filedThe 10th most severe storm Villisca has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 0 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Villisca saw the hail — from two instruments
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Mar 5, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Mar 5, 2026 sits in Villisca's hail record
This was Villisca's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 10th of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Villisca at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Mar 5, 2026 convective day was bigger than Villisca: the same system put hail over 343 other tracked cities, 73 of them in Iowa. Nearest: Clarinda (7 miles south, up to 1"); New Market (10 miles southeast, up to 0"); Coin (16 miles southwest, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Villisca's Mar 5, 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.
No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Villisca. That is common: a report depends on someone being there to see it and take the time to call it in. The radar surfaces above are the record here — the storm was detected from above even though no one on the ground logged it.
What 0" hail means for Villisca roofs
Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.
Track hail over Villisca on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Villisca storm history — this Mar 5, 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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11 recorded storm days in Villisca, IA
Other storms in Villisca
Jul 20, 2026
1.75"
Jun 10, 2026
1.75"
May 18, 2026
1"
May 16, 2026
2.5"
May 15, 2026
1.25"
Apr 25, 2026
Apr 23, 2026
1"
Apr 14, 2026
0.75"
Apr 9, 2026
Mar 6, 2026
0.5"