Hail in Mansfield · Mar 3, 2026
Convective day · Mar 3, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 6th most severe storm Mansfield 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
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Mansfield saw the hail — from two instruments
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
Radar signature field NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Mar 3, 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 3, 2026 sits in Mansfield's hail record.
This was Mansfield's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 6th of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Mansfield at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Mar 3, 2026 convective day was bigger than Mansfield: the same system put hail over 80 other tracked cities, 17 of them in Texas. Nearest: Cedar Hill (6 miles east, up to 1"); Lancaster (17 miles east, up to 1"); Dallas (29 miles northeast, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 6 Mansfield 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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Mansfield 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.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Mansfield roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Mansfield hail history
Other storms in Mansfield.
Estimated-size surface Sep 11, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jun 2, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface May 19, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Apr 25, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 4, 2026
2.25"The next storm won’t wait for you.
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