Hail in Safety Harbor · May 18, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Safety Harbor that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · May 18, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 3rd most severe storm Safety Harbor 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
- 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 Safety Harbor 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.
Estimated size field The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for May 18, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Safety Harbor, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where May 18, 2026 sits in Safety Harbor's hail record.
This was Safety Harbor's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 16 days after the May 2, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 3 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Safety Harbor at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The May 18, 2026 convective day was bigger than Safety Harbor: the same system put hail over 726 other tracked cities, 6 of them in Florida. Nearest: Saint Petersburg (14 miles south, up to 0.5"); Venice (67 miles south, up to 0.75"); Cape Coral (103 miles southeast, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 3 Safety Harbor 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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Safety Harbor for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Safety Harbor 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
Safety Harbor hail history
Other storms in Safety Harbor.
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