Hail in Belle Plaine · Mar 3, 2026
NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0"; the estimated-size surface had no signal that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Mar 3, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 12th most severe storm Belle Plaine 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
- 0 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /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 Belle Plaine 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.
Radar signature field 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 3, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Mar 3, 2026 sits in Belle Plaine's hail record.
This was Belle Plaine's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 12th of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Belle Plaine at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Mar 3, 2026 convective day was bigger than Belle Plaine: the same system put hail over 80 other tracked cities, 17 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Peck (9 miles northwest, up to 0"); Clearwater (13 miles northwest, up to 0"); Wichita (14 miles north, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 13 Belle Plaine 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.
For this storm over Belle Plaine, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
Below the severe threshold
What 0" hail means for Belle Plaine 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
Belle Plaine hail history
Other storms in Belle Plaine.
Estimated-size surface Aug 6, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 11, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 9, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 4, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 18, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 13, 2026
0.5"
NEXRAD surface May 31, 2026
Estimated-size surface May 18, 2026
1.25"
NEXRAD surface Apr 25, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Apr 17, 2026
2"
Estimated-size surface Apr 3, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Mar 5, 2026
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