Hail size 1"
1 E Woods Heights Ray County
“Social media report of quarter size hail on Route 10 east of Woods Heights. Time estimated from radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Excelsior Springs Mar 10, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Excelsior Springs this day.
Largest hailstone
1"
≈ quarter · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
6,742
Ground reports
4
4 hailThe most severe storm Excelsior Springs has seen in the last 12 months
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
4.4 /10
- Hail size
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 77 /100
- Ground truth
- 67 /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 Excelsior Springs 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.
Radar-estimated hail size
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
1"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Mar 10, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Excelsior Springs, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Mar 10, 2026 sits in Excelsior Springs's hail record
This was Excelsior Springs's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Excelsior Springs at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Mar 10, 2026 convective day was bigger than Excelsior Springs: the same system put hail over 470 other tracked cities, 63 of them in Missouri. Nearest: Orrick (6 miles southeast, up to 1.5"); Kearney (9 miles northwest, up to 1"); Lawson (11 miles north, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills from Excelsior Springs's Mar 10, 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.
Hail reports
4 reports Hail size 1"
Woods Heights Ray County
“Social media report of quarter size hail in Wood Heights. Time estimated from radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
Excelsior Springs Clay County
“Social media photo of quarter size hail in Excelsior Springs. Time estimated from radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
Excelsior Springs Clay County
“Delayed social media report. Time adjusted from radar. (EAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Hail was reported over 10 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Woods Heights — beyond Excelsior Springs itself.
What 1" hail means for Excelsior Springs roofs
Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$81M
Potential roof exposure — 6,742 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
34 jobs
Illustrative work
~$510K
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.
Track hail over Excelsior Springs on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Excelsior Springs storm history — this Mar 10, 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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Excelsior Springs hail history
← All hail in Excelsior Springs 2 recorded storm days in Excelsior Springs, MO
Other storms in Excelsior Springs
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 surfaces are detections and estimates,
not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 2, 2026.