Storm report · Fulton

Hail in Wauseon Mar 31, 2026

NEXRAD caught this storm: 1 hail signature up to 0.5". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.

Largest hailstone

0.5"

≈ pea to penny · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint

64

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 3rd most severe storm Wauseon 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.

1.7 /10
Hail size
13 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
36 /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 Wauseon 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.

NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Wauseon, OH on Mar 31, 2026

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.

Max size 0.5" Detections 1

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 Wauseon's hail record

This was Wauseon's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 5 days after the Mar 26, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 3 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Wauseon at 0.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Mar 31, 2026 convective day was bigger than Wauseon: the same system put hail over 522 other tracked cities, 40 of them in Ohio. Nearest: Napoleon (7 miles south, up to 1"); Mc Clure (12 miles southeast, up to 1"); Malinta (15 miles south, up to 1").

These maps are stills from Wauseon's Mar 31, 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 Wauseon, 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.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Wauseon roofs

Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$768K

Potential roof exposure — 64 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 Wauseon on the live map

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Wauseon hail history

3 recorded storm days in Wauseon, OH

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Other storms in Wauseon

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 2, 2026.