Storm report · Hardee

Hail in Bowling Green Mar 8, 2026

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Bowling Green this day.

Largest hailstone

0.5"

≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

0

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 8th most severe storm Bowling Green has seen in the last 12 months

Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

0.8 /10
Hail size
13 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
0 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Bowling Green 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-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Bowling Green, FL on Mar 8, 2026

Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.

Max size 0.5"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Mar 8, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Bowling Green, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Mar 8, 2026 sits in Bowling Green's hail record

This was Bowling Green's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 8th of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Bowling Green at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Mar 8, 2026 convective day was bigger than Bowling Green: the same system put hail over 31 other tracked cities, 4 of them in Florida. Nearest: Zolfo Springs (19 miles east, up to 0.75"); Labelle (66 miles southeast, up to 0.75"); Lehigh Acres (74 miles south, up to 0.75").

These maps are stills from Bowling Green's Mar 8, 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.

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 Bowling Green 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.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Bowling Green roofs

Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.

Track hail over Bowling Green on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Bowling Green storm history — this Mar 8, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.

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Bowling Green hail history

8 recorded storm days in Bowling Green, FL

← All hail in Bowling Green

Other storms in Bowling Green

A storm day here is a convective day — it runs from noon to noon UTC, so late-night hail is grouped with the afternoon storm that spawned it rather than split across two calendar dates. Ground reports are public-domain observations from the NOAA Storm Prediction Center. Radar surfaces are detections and estimates, not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.