Hail in Saint Petersburg · Jul 23, 2026
Convective day · Jul 23, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 7th most severe storm Saint Petersburg 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
- 25 /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 Saint Petersburg saw the hail — from two instruments
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Jul 23, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Jul 23, 2026 sits in Saint Petersburg's hail record.
This was Saint Petersburg's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 7 days after the Jul 16, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 7th of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Saint Petersburg at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 23, 2026 convective day was bigger than Saint Petersburg: the same system put hail over 164 other tracked cities, 6 of them in Florida. Nearest: Longboat Key (28 miles south, up to 1"); Bradenton (30 miles southeast, up to 1"); Sarasota (30 miles southeast, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 7 Saint Petersburg 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 Saint Petersburg. 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.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Saint Petersburg 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
Saint Petersburg hail history
Other storms in Saint Petersburg.
Estimated-size surface Aug 19, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 16, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 6, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 16, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 27, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface May 18, 2026
0.5"The next storm won’t wait for you.
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