Hail in Belleville · Mar 30, 2026
Convective day · Mar 30, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 4th most severe storm Belleville 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
- 0 /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 Belleville saw the hail — from two instruments
Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.
Radar signature field NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Mar 30, 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 30, 2026 sits in Belleville's hail record.
This was Belleville's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 4th of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Belleville at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Mar 30, 2026 convective day was bigger than Belleville: the same system put hail over 313 other tracked cities, 53 of them in Wisconsin. Nearest: Oregon (5 miles east, up to 0"); Mount Horeb (10 miles west, up to 0"); Stoughton (10 miles east, up to 0").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 5 Belleville 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.
For this storm over Belleville, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
Below the severe threshold
What 0" hail means for Belleville roofs.
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
Belleville hail history
Other storms in Belleville.
Estimated-size surface Aug 9, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 24, 2026
0.5"
NEXRAD surface May 17, 2026
Estimated-size surface Mar 31, 2026
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