Hail in Lewis · Mar 26, 2026
Convective day · Mar 26, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 12th most severe storm Lewis 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 Lewis saw the hail — from two instruments
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
Radar signature field NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Mar 26, 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 26, 2026 sits in Lewis's hail record.
This was Lewis's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 12th of the 12 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Lewis at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Mar 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Lewis: the same system put hail over 316 other tracked cities, 17 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Macksville (16 miles east, up to 0"); Stafford (41 miles east, up to 0"); Sylvia (49 miles east, up to 0").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 12 Lewis 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.
No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Lewis. 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.
Below the severe threshold
What 0" hail means for Lewis 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
Aug 25, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 14, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 9, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 26, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jun 25, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 20, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 13, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 1, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface May 29, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface May 18, 2026
3"
Estimated-size surface Apr 9, 2026
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