“Trained spotter reported a 67 mph wind gust on personal weather station just west of Decatur. Noted small tree limbs on the roadway. (FWD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Decatur · Mar 10, 2026
Convective day · Mar 10, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 7th most severe storm Decatur 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
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 73 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Decatur 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.
Estimated size field Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Mar 10, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Decatur, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Mar 10, 2026 sits in Decatur's hail record.
This was Decatur's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 4 days after the Mar 6, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 7th of the 14 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Decatur at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Mar 10, 2026 convective day was bigger than Decatur: the same system put hail over 470 other tracked cities, 88 of them in Texas. Nearest: Alvord (16 miles northwest, up to 0.5"); Paradise (18 miles west, up to 1"); Chico (20 miles northwest, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 14 Decatur 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.
Wind reports
1 reportBelow the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Decatur 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
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$52M
Potential roof exposure — 4,309 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 22 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$330K
Close just 0.5% of the 4,309 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 $905 on top of the $150 plan.
Decatur hail history
Other storms in Decatur.
Estimated-size surface Aug 26, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jul 16, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 18, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 6, 2026
2.75"
Estimated-size surface May 26, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface May 25, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface May 24, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface May 22, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface May 19, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Apr 28, 2026
2"
Estimated-size surface Apr 25, 2026
Estimated-size surface Apr 15, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Mar 6, 2026
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