Hail in Plant City May 20, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Plant City this day.
0.5"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft47
0
none filedThe 9th most severe storm Plant City has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 34 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Plant City 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.
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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for May 20, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Plant City, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where May 20, 2026 sits in Plant City's hail record
This was Plant City's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 57 days after the Mar 24, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 9th of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Plant City at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The May 20, 2026 convective day was bigger than Plant City: the same system put hail over 109 other tracked cities, 8 of them in Florida. Nearest: Dade City (14 miles north, up to 0.5"); Riverview (24 miles southwest, up to 0.75"); Wimauma (28 miles south, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from Plant City's May 20, 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.
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 Plant City, 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.
What 0.5" hail means for Plant City 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.
$564K
Potential roof exposure — 47 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Plant City on the live map
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11 recorded storm days in Plant City, FL
Other storms in Plant City
Jul 25, 2026
1"
Jul 11, 2026
1.5"
Jul 10, 2026
0.5"
Jul 8, 2026
1.5"
Jul 7, 2026
0.5"
Jul 1, 2026
1.25"
Jun 30, 2026
1"
Jun 29, 2026
2.75"
Jun 27, 2026
1.25"
Mar 24, 2026
0.5"