Hail in Pilot Point · Mar 3, 2026
Convective day · Mar 3, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 4th most severe storm Pilot Point 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 Pilot Point saw the hail — from two instruments
Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.
Radar signature field The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured 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 Pilot Point's hail record.
This was Pilot Point's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 4th of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Pilot Point at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Mar 3, 2026 convective day was bigger than Pilot Point: the same system put hail over 80 other tracked cities, 17 of them in Texas. Nearest: Dallas (40 miles south, up to 1"); Royse City (49 miles southeast, up to 1"); Forney (54 miles southeast, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 4 Pilot Point 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.
No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Pilot Point. That is common: a report depends on someone being there to see it and take the time to call it in. The radar surfaces above are the record here — the storm was detected from above even though no one on the ground logged it.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Pilot Point 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
Pilot Point hail history
Other storms in Pilot Point.
Estimated-size surface May 9, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Apr 15, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 4, 2026
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