Hail in Spencerville · Mar 21, 2026
Convective day · Mar 21, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 4th most severe storm Spencerville 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 Spencerville 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 21, 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 21, 2026 sits in Spencerville's hail record.
This was Spencerville'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 Spencerville at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Mar 21, 2026 convective day was bigger than Spencerville: the same system put hail over 13 other tracked cities, 2 of them in Ohio. Nearest: Lima (5 miles east, up to 1"); Dublin (73 miles southeast, up to 1.75"); Saybrook (221 miles west, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 5 Spencerville 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 Spencerville 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.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Spencerville 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
Spencerville hail history
Other storms in Spencerville.
Estimated-size surface Aug 7, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 17, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 3, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Mar 22, 2026
1.25"The next storm won’t wait for you.
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