Storm report · Osceola

Hail in Okeechobee Mar 14, 2026

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.5" aloft.

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Largest hailstone

0.5"

≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft

Homes in the hail footprint

Ground reports

none filed

Severity

The 23rd most severe storm Okeechobee 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.

1.6 /10

Hail size: 13 /100
Homes exposed: 34 /100
Ground truth: 0 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Okeechobee saw the hail — from two instruments

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-signature map of the hail storm over Okeechobee, FL on Mar 14, 2026 — 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 map of the storm over Okeechobee, FL on Mar 14, 2026 — 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 Mar 14, 2026 sits in Okeechobee's hail record

This was Okeechobee's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 5 days after the Mar 9, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 23rd of the 30 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Okeechobee at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Mar 14, 2026 convective day was bigger than Okeechobee: the same system put hail over 4 other tracked cities, 3 of them in Florida. Nearest: Port Saint Lucie (31 miles east, up to 0.5"); Loxahatchee (56 miles southeast, up to 0.75"); Belle Glade (61 miles southeast, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills from Okeechobee's Mar 14, 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.

For this storm over Okeechobee, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Okeechobee 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.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$624K

Potential roof exposure — 52 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around March 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

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Okeechobee hail history

30 recorded storm days in Okeechobee, FL

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