Hail in Port Saint Lucie · Jul 17, 2026
Convective day · Jul 17, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 6th most severe storm Port Saint Lucie 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
- 83 /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 Port Saint Lucie 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.
Estimated size field 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 Jul 17, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Port Saint Lucie, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Jul 17, 2026 sits in Port Saint Lucie's hail record.
This was Port Saint Lucie's 9th recorded hail day, arriving 4 days after the Jul 13, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 16 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Port Saint Lucie at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Port Saint Lucie: the same system put hail over 415 other tracked cities, 71 of them in Florida. Nearest: Fort Pierce (7 miles north, up to 0.75"); Palm City (11 miles south, up to 0.5"); Okeechobee (31 miles west, up to 0.5").
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
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.
No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Port Saint Lucie. That is common: a report depends on someone being there to see it and take the time to call it in. The radar surfaces above are the record here — the storm was detected from above even though no one on the ground logged it.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Port Saint Lucie 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
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$170M
Potential roof exposure — 14,129 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 71 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$1.1M
Close just 0.5% of the 14,129 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.
Claim window
July 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 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 $2,967 on top of the $150 plan.
Port Saint Lucie hail history
Other storms in Port Saint Lucie.
Estimated-size surface Sep 7, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 25, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 23, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 19, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 12, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 4, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 20, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 13, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 10, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 25, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 24, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 22, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface May 12, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Mar 16, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Mar 14, 2026
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