Hail in Lamar · Mar 6, 2026
Convective day · Mar 6, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 10th most severe storm Lamar 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
- 25 /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 Lamar saw the hail — from two instruments
Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.
Radar signature field NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.
Estimated size field Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.
The storm in context
Where Mar 6, 2026 sits in Lamar's hail record.
This was Lamar's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the Mar 4, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 10th of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Lamar at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Mar 6, 2026 convective day was bigger than Lamar: the same system put hail over 486 other tracked cities, 42 of them in Missouri. Nearest: Golden City (9 miles southeast, up to 1"); Carthage (24 miles south, up to 1"); Reeds (28 miles south, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 11 Lamar 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Lamar. 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.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Lamar roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Estimated-size surface Sep 12, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 10, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 4, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface May 31, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface May 30, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface May 23, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface May 18, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Apr 28, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Apr 1, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Mar 4, 2026
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