Hail in Water Valley · Mar 15, 2026
Convective day · Mar 15, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 13th most severe storm Water Valley 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 Water Valley 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.
Radar signature field Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
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 Water Valley's hail record.
This was Water Valley's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 17 days after the Feb 26, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 13th of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Water Valley at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Mar 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Water Valley: the same system put hail over 695 other tracked cities, 64 of them in Mississippi. Nearest: Oakland (13 miles southwest, up to 0"); Como (21 miles north, up to 0"); Sardis (27 miles northwest, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 13 Water Valley 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 Water Valley. 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 Water Valley 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
Water Valley hail history
Other storms in Water Valley.
Estimated-size surface Sep 6, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Sep 3, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 22, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Aug 19, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 10, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 31, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 4, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 1, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 1, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Apr 27, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 31, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Feb 26, 2026
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