Tornado Rating unknown
3 ESE Fort Myers Lee County
“[Landspout] The media shared videos of a possible landspout from around 7pm in the intersection of Colonial Blvd. and I-75. (TBW)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Lee
Hail in Fort Myers · Jul 2, 2026
NEXRAD logged 16 hail signatures up to 1.75"; the estimated-size surface reached 1" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm. The ground reports below show where it was filed.
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Peak hail signal 1.75" ≈ golf ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint 7,490
Ground reports 1 1 tornado
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size
Convective day · Jul 2, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The most severe storm Fort Myers has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 5.1 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
5.1 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 44 /100
- Homes exposed
- 77 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Fort Myers saw the hail — from two instruments
Jul 2, 2026 · Fort Myers, 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
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
1.75"
Detections
16
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
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 Jul 2, 2026 sits in Fort Myers's hail record.
This was Fort Myers's 10th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Jul 1, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 24 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Fort Myers at 1.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 2, 2026 convective day was bigger than Fort Myers: the same system put hail over 1,147 other tracked cities, 5 of them in Florida. Nearest: Alva (20 miles east, up to 1.75"); Naples (29 miles south, up to 0.75"); Pembroke Pines (96 miles southeast, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 24 Fort Myers 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
1 report 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.
Tornado reports
1 reportHigh damage potential
What 1.75" hail means for Fort Myers roofs.
Hail around an inch and a half is capable of cracking shingles, stripping granules, and denting gutters, vents, and siding. Risk is usually greatest near the strongest radar signal, but property-level damage still requires an on-site inspection.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
7,490 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$90M
Potential roof exposure — 7,490 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 37 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$555K
Close just 0.5% of the 7,490 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 $1,573 on top of the $150 plan.
Fort Myers hail history
Other storms in Fort Myers.
24 recorded storm days in Fort Myers, FL
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Myers / FL
Sep 11, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Myers / FL
Sep 10, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Myers / FL
Sep 9, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Myers / FL
Aug 29, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Myers / FL
Aug 28, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Myers / FL
Aug 25, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Myers / FL
Aug 14, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Myers / FL
Aug 9, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Myers / FL
Aug 7, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Myers / FL
Aug 5, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Myers / FL
Jul 22, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Myers / FL
Jul 10, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Myers / FL
Jul 9, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Myers / FL
Jul 7, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Myers / FL
Jul 1, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Myers / FL
Jun 30, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Myers / FL
Jun 27, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Myers / FL
Jun 22, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Myers / FL
May 21, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Myers / FL
May 20, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Myers / FL
May 17, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Myers / FL
Apr 2, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Myers / FL
Mar 1, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
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 Sep 12, 2026.