Hail in Spencer · Mar 30, 2026
Convective day · Mar 30, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 7th most severe storm Spencer 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 Spencer 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 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 Spencer's hail record.
This was Spencer's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 7th of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Spencer at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Mar 30, 2026 convective day was bigger than Spencer: the same system put hail over 313 other tracked cities, 53 of them in Wisconsin. Nearest: Stratford (15 miles east, up to 1"); Auburndale (19 miles east, up to 1"); Mosinee (42 miles east, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 7 Spencer 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Spencer. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.
Below the severe threshold
What 0" hail means for Spencer 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
Spencer hail history
Other storms in Spencer.
Estimated-size surface Jun 24, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 10, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 9, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface May 27, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface May 17, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Apr 13, 2026
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