NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0"; the estimated-size surface reached 0" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm. The ground reports below show where it was filed.
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Convective day · Mar 6, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
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
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.
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.
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.
The storm in context
This was Linden's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 5th of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Linden at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Mar 6, 2026 convective day was bigger than Linden: the same system put hail over 486 other tracked cities, 54 of them in Texas. Nearest: Bivins (9 miles east, up to 0"); Hughes Springs (9 miles west, up to 0"); Avinger (15 miles west, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 5 Linden 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
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.
“*** 2 INJ *** AROUND 3:09AM ON MARCH 7... 2026 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED A TORNADO NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF PROSPECT... TEXAS. THE TORNADO INITIALLY TOUCHED DOWN JUST (SHV)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“*** 2 INJ *** Around 3:09am on March 7... 2026 a severe thunderstorm produced a tornado near the community of Prospect... Texas. The tornado initially touched down just (SHV)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“*** 2 INJ *** A tornado likely developed across North-Central Marion County just southwest of the Prospect community and traveled northeast into southern Cass County. A (SHV)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Hail was reported over 60 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Jefferson — beyond Linden itself.
Below the severe threshold
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
Linden hail history
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