Storm report · Ste. Genevieve

Hail in Sainte Genevieve Mar 15, 2026

NEXRAD caught this storm: 2 hail signatures up to 1". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.

Largest hailstone

1"

≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint

70

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 9th most severe storm Sainte Genevieve 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.

2.4 /10
Hail size
25 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
37 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Sainte Genevieve saw the hail — from two instruments

The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.

NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Sainte Genevieve, MO on Mar 15, 2026

Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.

Max size 1" Detections 2

Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Mar 15, 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 15, 2026 sits in Sainte Genevieve's hail record

This was Sainte Genevieve's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 9th of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Sainte Genevieve at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Mar 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Sainte Genevieve: the same system put hail over 695 other tracked cities, 59 of them in Missouri. Nearest: Fults (14 miles north, up to 1"); Evansville (15 miles northeast, up to 0.5"); Fredericktown (32 miles southwest, up to 0.75").

These maps are stills from Sainte Genevieve's Mar 15, 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.

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.

For this storm over Sainte Genevieve, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.

Shingle-bruising hail

What 1" hail means for Sainte Genevieve 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

$840K

Potential roof exposure — 70 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
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 Sainte Genevieve on the live map

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Sainte Genevieve hail history

11 recorded storm days in Sainte Genevieve, MO

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Other storms in Sainte Genevieve

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 3, 2026.