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Hail in Bowling Green · Aug 21, 2026

NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0"; the estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 0.5" ≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 0
Ground reports 0 none filed
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size

Convective day · Aug 21, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 10th most severe storm Bowling Green has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 0.8 / 10
Storm severity score

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

0.8 /10
Peak hail signal
13 /100

Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.

Homes exposed
0 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Bowling Green saw the hail — from two instruments

Aug 21, 2026 · Bowling Green, FL

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.

NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Bowling Green, FL on Aug 21, 2026 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.

Max size 0" Detections 0
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Bowling Green, FL on Aug 21, 2026 Estimated size field

Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.

Max size 0.5"

The storm in context

Where Aug 21, 2026 sits in Bowling Green's hail record.

This was Bowling Green's 10th recorded hail day, arriving 16 days after the Aug 5, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 10th of the 12 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Bowling Green at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Aug 21, 2026 convective day was bigger than Bowling Green: the same system put hail over 659 other tracked cities, 30 of them in Florida. Nearest: Mulberry (6 miles west, up to 0.5"); Bartow (18 miles northeast, up to 0.75"); Zolfo Springs (24 miles southeast, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 12 Bowling Green 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

No reports filed with the NWS

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 Bowling Green. 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.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Bowling Green 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

Bowling Green hail history

12 recorded storm days in Bowling Green, FL
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Bowling Green, FL on Oct 16, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Bowling Green / FL

Oct 16, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Bowling Green, FL on Sep 14, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Bowling Green / FL

Sep 14, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Bowling Green, FL on Aug 5, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Bowling Green / FL

Aug 5, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Bowling Green, FL on Jul 12, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Bowling Green / FL

Jul 12, 2026

1.75"
Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Bowling Green, FL on Jul 10, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Bowling Green / FL

Jul 10, 2026

1.75"
Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Bowling Green, FL on Jun 29, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Bowling Green / FL

Jun 29, 2026

1.5"
Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Bowling Green, FL on Jun 26, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Bowling Green / FL

Jun 26, 2026

2.5"
Signatures 2.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Bowling Green, FL on Jun 13, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Bowling Green / FL

Jun 13, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Bowling Green, FL on May 17, 2026 NEXRAD surface
Storm date Bowling Green / FL

May 17, 2026

0.75"
Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Bowling Green, FL on Mar 15, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Bowling Green / FL

Mar 15, 2026

2.5"
Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Bowling Green, FL on Mar 8, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Bowling Green / FL

Mar 8, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →

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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Oct 17, 2026.