Hail size 1"
3 WNW Splendora Montgomery County
“An NWS employee shared a photo of 1 inch hail... around the size of a quarter. They noted that the hail lasted around 3 to 5 minutes in duration. (HGX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Liberty
Hail in Cleveland · Mar 15, 2026
NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1.75"; the estimated-size surface reached 0.75" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1.75" ≈ golf ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint 7,470
Ground reports 2 2 hail
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size
Convective day · Mar 15, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The most severe storm Cleveland has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 5.1 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
5.1 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 44 /100
- Homes exposed
- 77 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Cleveland saw the hail — from two instruments
Mar 15, 2026 · Cleveland, TX
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.
NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
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.
Max size
1.75"
Detections
0
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Max size
0.75"
The storm in context
Where Mar 15, 2026 sits in Cleveland's hail record.
This was Cleveland's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 7 days after the Mar 8, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Cleveland at 1.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Mar 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Cleveland: the same system put hail over 695 other tracked cities, 89 of them in Texas. Nearest: Splendora (14 miles southwest, up to 1.75"); Shepherd (14 miles northeast, up to 1.75"); Livingston (19 miles northeast, up to 2").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 13 Cleveland 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
2 reports filed with the NWS
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.
Hail reports
2 reports Hail size 1.5"
3 SSE Plum Grove Liberty County
“Received images of large hail from county emergency manager that a member of the public sent to them from the severe storms that moved through the region on Sunday even (HGX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Hail was reported over 21 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Splendora and Plum Grove — beyond Cleveland itself.
High damage potential
What 1.75" hail means for Cleveland roofs.
Hail around an inch and a half is capable of cracking shingles, stripping granules, and denting gutters, vents, and siding. Risk is usually greatest near the strongest radar signal, but property-level damage still requires an on-site inspection.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
7,470 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$90M
Potential roof exposure — 7,470 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 37 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$555K
Close just 0.5% of the 7,470 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.
Claim window
March 2028
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.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $1,569 on top of the $150 plan.
Cleveland hail history
Other storms in Cleveland.
13 recorded storm days in Cleveland, TX
Estimated-size surface Storm date Cleveland / TX
Sep 2, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Cleveland / TX
Aug 28, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Cleveland / TX
Aug 22, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Cleveland / TX
Jul 7, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Cleveland / TX
Jun 19, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Cleveland / TX
Jun 2, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
NEXRAD surface Storm date Cleveland / TX
May 26, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Cleveland / TX
May 10, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Cleveland / TX
May 9, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Cleveland / TX
Mar 8, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Cleveland / TX
Mar 7, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
NEXRAD surface Storm date Cleveland / TX
Mar 6, 2026
No ground reports filed Open report →
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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Sep 3, 2026.