Hail in Avon Park Mar 16, 2026
NEXRAD caught this storm: 5 hail signatures up to 0.75". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
0.75"
≈ penny to nickel · the largest NEXRAD radar signature0
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none filedThe 10th most severe storm Avon Park 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
- 19 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /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 Avon Park 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.
NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Mar 16, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Mar 16, 2026 sits in Avon Park's hail record
This was Avon Park's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 10th of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Avon Park at 0.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Mar 16, 2026 convective day was bigger than Avon Park: the same system put hail over 58 other tracked cities, 44 of them in Florida. Nearest: Punta Gorda (44 miles south, up to 0.75"); Intercession City (48 miles north, up to 1.5"); Kissimmee (48 miles north, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills from Avon Park's Mar 16, 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.
No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Avon Park. 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.
What 0.75" hail means for Avon Park roofs
Hail this size sits right at the edge of the National Weather Service severe threshold. Newer roofs usually shrug it off, but aging or already-worn shingles can bruise, and soft metals — vents, flashing, gutters — often show the first dents.
Track hail over Avon Park on the live map
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10 recorded storm days in Avon Park, FL
Other storms in Avon Park
Jul 26, 2026
1.5"
Jul 10, 2026
1.25"
Jul 7, 2026
1.5"
Jul 3, 2026
1"
Jun 27, 2026
1"
Jun 24, 2026
0.5"
Jun 22, 2026
0.5"
Jun 2, 2026
1"
Mar 25, 2026
2"