Hail in Memphis Mar 15, 2026
NEXRAD caught this storm: 6 hail signatures up to 1.75". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
1.75"
≈ golf ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature38
0
none filedThe 5th most severe storm Memphis has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 44 /100
- Homes exposed
- 32 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Memphis 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'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.
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.
Where Mar 15, 2026 sits in Memphis's hail record
This was Memphis's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 5th of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Memphis at 1.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Mar 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Memphis: the same system put hail over 695 other tracked cities, 36 of them in Tennessee. Nearest: Byhalia (15 miles southeast, up to 1"); West Memphis (17 miles west, up to 1.25"); Hernando (17 miles south, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Memphis'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.
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 Memphis, 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.
What 1.75" hail means for Memphis roofs
At an inch and a half, hail cracks shingles, strips granules down to the mat, and dents gutters, vents, and siding. A footprint like this typically produces a wave of insurance claims — and the contractor who reaches the homeowner first usually gets the inspection.
$456K
Potential roof exposure — 38 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Memphis on the live map
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10 recorded storm days in Memphis, TN
Other storms in Memphis
Jul 25, 2026
1"
Jul 21, 2026
0.5"
Jul 4, 2026
2"
Jul 1, 2026
1"
Jun 13, 2026
1"
Jun 1, 2026
2.5"
May 31, 2026
1"
Apr 28, 2026
1.25"
Apr 27, 2026
1.75"