Hail in Canal Point · Mar 16, 2026
Convective day · Mar 16, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 7th most severe storm Canal 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 Canal Point saw the hail — from two instruments
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
Radar signature field NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.
Estimated size field Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
The storm in context
Where Mar 16, 2026 sits in Canal Point's hail record.
This was Canal Point's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 7th of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Canal Point at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Mar 16, 2026 convective day was bigger than Canal Point: the same system put hail over 58 other tracked cities, 44 of them in Florida. Nearest: Loxahatchee (23 miles southeast, up to 0.75"); Hobe Sound (28 miles northeast, up to 1.25"); Jupiter (28 miles east, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 11 Canal 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Canal Point. 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.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Canal 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
Canal Point hail history
Other storms in Canal Point.
Estimated-size surface Sep 10, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 25, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 26, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 10, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 5, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 3, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jun 25, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 22, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 19, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Apr 24, 2026
0.5"The next storm won’t wait for you.
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