Hail in Altoona 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
0
none filedThe 11th most severe storm Altoona 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 Altoona saw the hail — from two instruments
Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.
The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.
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 Altoona's hail record
This was Altoona's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the Mar 3, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 11th of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Altoona at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Mar 5, 2026 convective day was bigger than Altoona: the same system put hail over 343 other tracked cities, 110 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Fredonia (9 miles northwest, up to 0"); Howard (16 miles west, up to 0"); Yates Center (21 miles north, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Altoona'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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Altoona. 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.
What 0" hail means for Altoona 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 Altoona on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Altoona 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 Altoona, KS
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