Hail in Ashland · Mar 15, 2026
Convective day · Mar 15, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 10th most severe storm Ashland 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 Ashland 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 signature field The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.
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.
The storm in context
Where Mar 15, 2026 sits in Ashland's hail record.
This was Ashland's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 10th of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Ashland at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Mar 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Ashland: the same system put hail over 695 other tracked cities, 64 of them in Mississippi. Nearest: Tiplersville (11 miles east, up to 0.5"); Hickory Flat (15 miles south, up to 0"); Walnut (17 miles east, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 10 Ashland 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 Ashland. 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.
Below the severe threshold
What 0" hail means for Ashland 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
Ashland hail history
Other storms in Ashland.
Estimated-size surface Aug 22, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 17, 2026
0.75"
NEXRAD surface Jul 11, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 10, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jul 8, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 1, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 1, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface May 23, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Apr 28, 2026
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