Tornado Rating unknown
2 NW Eagle Lake Cass County
“Several trees snapped and damage to a home on Harris Street near M62. Photos on X. Time estimated via radar. (IWX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Cass
Hail in Dowagiac · Mar 6, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.75" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Dowagiac that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm. The ground reports below show where it was filed.
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Peak hail signal 0.75" ≈ penny to nickel · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 511
Ground reports 1 1 tornado
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Mar 6, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The most severe storm Dowagiac has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 3.0 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
3.0 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 19 /100
- Homes exposed
- 54 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Dowagiac saw the hail — from two instruments
Mar 6, 2026 · Dowagiac, MI
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.
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Max size
0.75"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Mar 6, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Dowagiac, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Mar 6, 2026 sits in Dowagiac's hail record.
This was Dowagiac's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Dowagiac at 0.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Mar 6, 2026 convective day was bigger than Dowagiac: the same system put hail over 486 other tracked cities, 21 of them in Michigan. Nearest: Cassopolis (5 miles east, up to 0.5"); Edwardsburg (9 miles southeast, up to 0.75"); Three Rivers (27 miles east, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 6 Dowagiac 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
1 report filed with the NWS
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.
Tornado reports
1 reportStorm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Reports came from Eagle Lake — beyond Dowagiac itself.
Near the severe threshold
What 0.75" hail means for Dowagiac roofs.
A signal this size sits near the National Weather Service severe threshold. Aging shingles and soft metals such as vents, flashing, and gutters may be more vulnerable; roof age, wind, and material condition all matter, and only an inspection can confirm damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
511 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$6.1M
Potential roof exposure — 511 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 511 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 $107 on top of the $150 plan.
Dowagiac hail history
Other storms in Dowagiac.
6 recorded storm days in Dowagiac, MI
Estimated-size surface Storm date Dowagiac / MI
Sep 4, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Dowagiac / MI
Aug 10, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Dowagiac / MI
Jul 27, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Dowagiac / MI
Jul 3, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
NEXRAD surface Storm date Dowagiac / MI
Apr 13, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
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A storm day here is a convective day — it runs from noon to noon
UTC, so late-night hail is grouped with the afternoon storm that
spawned it rather than split across two calendar dates. Ground
reports are public-domain observations from the NOAA Storm
Prediction Center. Radar tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Sep 5, 2026.