Hail in Dade City · Jul 12, 2026
Convective day · Jul 12, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 17th most severe storm Dade City 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
- 13 /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 Dade City 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 Jul 12, 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 Jul 12, 2026 sits in Dade City's hail record.
This was Dade City's 12th recorded hail day, arriving 5 days after the Jul 7, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 17th of the 19 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Dade City at 0.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 12, 2026 convective day was bigger than Dade City: the same system put hail over 367 other tracked cities, 46 of them in Florida. Nearest: Webster (9 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Polk City (28 miles southeast, up to 0.75"); Clermont (30 miles east, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 19 Dade City 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 Dade City. 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 0.5" hail means for Dade City 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
Dade City hail history
Other storms in Dade City.
Estimated-size surface Aug 20, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 19, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 14, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 9, 2026
0.75"
NEXRAD surface Jul 22, 2026
Estimated-size surface Jul 17, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 13, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 7, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 28, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 25, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 24, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface May 27, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface May 23, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface May 20, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface May 17, 2026
0.5"
NEXRAD surface May 12, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Mar 15, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 5, 2026
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