Storm report · Harris

Hail in Houston Mar 6, 2026

NEXRAD caught this storm: 0 hail signatures up to 1". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.

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Largest hailstone

≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature

Homes in the hail footprint

Ground reports

none filed

Severity

The 17th most severe storm Houston 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.

1.5 /10

Hail size: 25 /100
Homes exposed: 0 /100
Ground truth: 0 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Houston 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.

NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Houston, TX on Mar 6, 2026 — 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" Detections 0

Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Mar 6, 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 6, 2026 sits in Houston's hail record

This was Houston's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 17th of the 18 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Houston at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Mar 6, 2026 convective day was bigger than Houston: the same system put hail over 486 other tracked cities, 54 of them in Texas. Nearest: Humble (14 miles northeast, up to 1"); Cleveland (45 miles northeast, up to 0"); Palestine (131 miles north, up to 0").

These maps are stills from Houston's Mar 6, 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.

Nobody on the ground filed a report over Houston 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.

Shingle-bruising hail

What 1" hail means for Houston roofs

Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.

Track hail over Houston on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Houston storm history — this Mar 6, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.

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Houston hail history

18 recorded storm days in Houston, TX

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