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Hail in Brooksville · Mar 15, 2026

NEXRAD logged 65 hail signatures up to 2.5"; the estimated-size surface reached 1" aloft. At 2.5" — baseball — this is a severe hail signal associated with roof damage. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 2.5" ≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint 7,867
Ground reports 0 none filed
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size

Convective day · Mar 15, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The most severe storm Brooksville has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 5.7 / 10
Storm severity score

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

5.7 /10
Peak hail signal
63 /100

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

Homes exposed
78 /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 Brooksville saw the hail — from two instruments

Mar 15, 2026 · Brooksville, FL

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.

NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Brooksville, FL on Mar 15, 2026 Radar signature field

Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.

Max size 2.5" Detections 65
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Brooksville, FL on Mar 15, 2026 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.

Max size 1"

The storm in context

Where Mar 15, 2026 sits in Brooksville's hail record.

This was Brooksville's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 10 days after the Mar 5, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Brooksville at 2.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Mar 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Brooksville: the same system put hail over 695 other tracked cities, 66 of them in Florida. Nearest: Floral City (9 miles northeast, up to 1"); Dade City (14 miles southeast, up to 2.5"); Spring Hill (14 miles southwest, up to 1").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 13 Brooksville 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.

Nobody on the ground filed a report over Brooksville 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.

Severe hail signal

What 2.5" hail means for Brooksville roofs.

Two-inch-plus hail is capable of puncturing shingles, breaking skylights or windows, and heavily denting soft materials. The strongest radar bands warrant prompt inspection, but neither the signal nor the footprint confirms damage at a specific address.

Radar reading · not confirmed damage

Roofing exposure

What this storm is worth to a roofer.

7,867 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$94M

Potential roof exposure — 7,867 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs
39 jobs
Illustrative work
~$585K

Close just 0.5% of the 7,867 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

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 $1,652 on top of the $150 plan.

Brooksville hail history

13 recorded storm days in Brooksville, FL
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Brooksville, FL on Aug 29, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Brooksville / FL

Aug 29, 2026

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

Aug 20, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Brooksville, FL on Aug 19, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Brooksville / FL

Aug 19, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Brooksville, FL on Aug 9, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Brooksville / FL

Aug 9, 2026

1"
Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Brooksville, FL on Aug 6, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Brooksville / FL

Aug 6, 2026

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

Jul 17, 2026

1.5"
Estimated 1.5"
1 ground report Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Brooksville, FL on Jul 11, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Brooksville / FL

Jul 11, 2026

0.75"
Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Brooksville, FL on Jul 10, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Brooksville / FL

Jul 10, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Brooksville, FL on Jul 7, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Brooksville / FL

Jul 7, 2026

0.75"
Signatures 0.75" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Brooksville, FL on Jun 30, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Brooksville / FL

Jun 30, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Brooksville, FL on May 24, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Brooksville / FL

May 24, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Brooksville, FL on Mar 5, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Brooksville / FL

Mar 5, 2026

0.75"
Signatures 0.75"
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 Aug 30, 2026.