“Hall County Sheriff Office reported lots of ping pong ball sized hail in Memphis. (LUB)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Memphis Mar 30, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 8 hail signatures up to 2.5", and the radar-estimated size reached 2" aloft. At 2.5" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
2.5"
≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature42
4
3 hail · 1 windThe 3rd most severe storm Memphis has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 63 /100
- Homes exposed
- 33 /100
- Ground truth
- 67 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Memphis 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.
Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
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.
Where Mar 30, 2026 sits in Memphis's hail record
This was Memphis's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 25 days after the Mar 5, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Memphis at 2.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Mar 30, 2026 convective day was bigger than Memphis: the same system put hail over 313 other tracked cities, 11 of them in Texas. Nearest: Hedley (12 miles west, up to 2.75"); Wellington (21 miles east, up to 1"); Clarendon (29 miles west, up to 2.25").
These maps are stills from Memphis's Mar 30, 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.
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.
Hail reports
3 reports“Multiple phone calls of golf ball sized hail in Memphis... with lots of hail on the ground. (LUB)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
“In all it was reported to hail close to 1 1/2 hours with up to 1 inch hail about half of that time. Damage to skylights was reported. The hail ranged from dime to quart (AMA)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Wind reports
1 report“West Texas Mesonet. (LUB)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
How the storm moved
Hail was reported over 144 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Hedley — beyond Memphis itself.
What 2.5" hail means for Memphis roofs
Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.
$504K
Potential roof exposure — 42 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Memphis on the live map
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10 recorded storm days in Memphis, TX
Other storms in Memphis
Jul 1, 2026
1"
Jun 30, 2026
1.75"
Jun 18, 2026
0.5"
Jun 5, 2026
1.25"
May 31, 2026
1.75"
May 29, 2026
1.75"
Apr 12, 2026
0.5"
Mar 31, 2026
3.25"
Mar 5, 2026
2.5"