Hail in Lithia · Jul 22, 2026
Convective day · Jul 22, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 14th most severe storm Lithia 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 Lithia saw the hail — from two instruments
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
Radar signature field Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Jul 22, 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 22, 2026 sits in Lithia's hail record.
This was Lithia's 11th recorded hail day, arriving 11 days after the Jul 11, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 14th of the 14 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Lithia at 0" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 22, 2026 convective day was bigger than Lithia: the same system put hail over 158 other tracked cities, 9 of them in Florida. Nearest: Ona (28 miles south, up to 0"); Arcadia (49 miles south, up to 1.25"); Dade City (49 miles north, up to 0").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 14 Lithia 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 Lithia. 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 Lithia 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
Lithia hail history
Other storms in Lithia.
Estimated-size surface Aug 31, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 14, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 25, 2026
2"
Estimated-size surface Jul 11, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 10, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 6, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 30, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jun 28, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 27, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface May 23, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface May 21, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 15, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 5, 2026
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