Hail in Pilot Grove · Mar 31, 2026
Convective day · Mar 31, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 4th most severe storm Pilot Grove 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 Pilot Grove 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.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Mar 31, 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 31, 2026 sits in Pilot Grove's hail record.
This was Pilot Grove's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 4th of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Pilot Grove at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Mar 31, 2026 convective day was bigger than Pilot Grove: the same system put hail over 522 other tracked cities, 27 of them in Missouri. Nearest: Sedalia (13 miles southwest, up to 0"); Syracuse (21 miles south, up to 0"); Cole Camp (28 miles south, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 5 Pilot Grove 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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Pilot Grove for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
Below the severe threshold
What 0" hail means for Pilot Grove 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
Pilot Grove hail history
Other storms in Pilot Grove.
Estimated-size surface Aug 18, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 17, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Apr 27, 2026
1.75"
NEXRAD surface Apr 26, 2026
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