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Hail in Port Saint Lucie · Mar 16, 2026

NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1"; the estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 1" ≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint 7
Ground reports 0 none filed
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size

Convective day · Mar 16, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 16th most severe storm Port Saint Lucie has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 2.0 / 10
Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

2.0 /10
Peak hail signal
25 /100

Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.

Homes exposed
18 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Port Saint Lucie saw the hail — from two instruments

Mar 16, 2026 · Port Saint Lucie, FL

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.

NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Port Saint Lucie, FL on Mar 16, 2026 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.

Max size 1" Detections 0
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Port Saint Lucie, FL on Mar 16, 2026 Estimated size field

Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.

Max size 0.5"

The storm in context

Where Mar 16, 2026 sits in Port Saint Lucie's hail record.

This was Port Saint Lucie's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the Mar 14, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 16th of the 16 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Port Saint Lucie at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Mar 16, 2026 convective day was bigger than Port Saint Lucie: the same system put hail over 58 other tracked cities, 44 of them in Florida. Nearest: Fort Pierce (7 miles north, up to 1"); Hobe Sound (18 miles southeast, up to 1.25"); Canal Point (30 miles southwest, up to 1").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 16 Port Saint Lucie 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

No reports filed with the NWS

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 Port Saint Lucie. 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 Port Saint Lucie 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

Roofing exposure

What this storm is worth to a roofer.

7 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$84K

Potential roof exposure — 7 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Claim window

March 2028

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.

Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $1 on top of the $150 plan.

Port Saint Lucie hail history

16 recorded storm days in Port Saint Lucie, FL
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Port Saint Lucie, FL on Sep 7, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Port Saint Lucie / FL

Sep 7, 2026

0.75"
Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Port Saint Lucie, FL on Aug 25, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Port Saint Lucie / FL

Aug 25, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Port Saint Lucie, FL on Aug 23, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Port Saint Lucie / FL

Aug 23, 2026

0.75"
Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Port Saint Lucie, FL on Aug 19, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Port Saint Lucie / FL

Aug 19, 2026

0.75"
Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Port Saint Lucie, FL on Aug 12, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Port Saint Lucie / FL

Aug 12, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Port Saint Lucie, FL on Aug 4, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Port Saint Lucie / FL

Aug 4, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Port Saint Lucie, FL on Jul 20, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Port Saint Lucie / FL

Jul 20, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Port Saint Lucie, FL on Jul 17, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Port Saint Lucie / FL

Jul 17, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Port Saint Lucie, FL on Jul 13, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Port Saint Lucie / FL

Jul 13, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Port Saint Lucie, FL on Jul 10, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Port Saint Lucie / FL

Jul 10, 2026

1.5"
Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Port Saint Lucie, FL on Jun 25, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Port Saint Lucie / FL

Jun 25, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Port Saint Lucie, FL on Jun 24, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Port Saint Lucie / FL

Jun 24, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Port Saint Lucie, FL on Jun 22, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Port Saint Lucie / FL

Jun 22, 2026

0.75"
Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Port Saint Lucie, FL on May 12, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Port Saint Lucie / FL

May 12, 2026

0.75"
Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Port Saint Lucie, FL on Mar 14, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Port Saint Lucie / FL

Mar 14, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →

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A storm day here is a convective day — it runs from noon to noon UTC, so late-night hail is grouped with the afternoon storm that spawned it rather than split across two calendar dates. Ground reports are public-domain observations from the NOAA Storm Prediction Center. Radar tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Sep 8, 2026.