Wind gust 61 mph
1 NW Gainesville Airpor Alachua County
“ASOS station KGNV Gainesville measured a peak gust of 61 mph. (JAX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Alachua
Hail in Gainesville · Mar 16, 2026
NEXRAD logged 10 hail signatures up to 1"; the estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1" ≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint 3,509
Ground reports 1 1 wind
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size
Convective day · Mar 16, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 3rd most severe storm Gainesville has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 3.5 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
3.5 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 71 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Gainesville saw the hail — from two instruments
Mar 16, 2026 · Gainesville, FL
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 Surface resolved
Radar signature field 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.
Max size
1"
Detections
10
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Max size
0.5"
The storm in context
Where Mar 16, 2026 sits in Gainesville's hail record.
This was Gainesville's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 14 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Gainesville at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Mar 16, 2026 convective day was bigger than Gainesville: the same system put hail over 58 other tracked cities, 44 of them in Florida. Nearest: Micanopy (14 miles south, up to 0.75"); Sanderson (42 miles north, up to 0.75"); Palatka (44 miles east, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 14 Gainesville 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.
Wind reports
1 reportStorm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Reports came from Gainesville Airpor — beyond Gainesville itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Gainesville 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
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
3,509 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$42M
Potential roof exposure — 3,509 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 18 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$270K
Close just 0.5% of the 3,509 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 $737 on top of the $150 plan.
Gainesville hail history
Other storms in Gainesville.
14 recorded storm days in Gainesville, FL
Estimated-size surface Storm date Gainesville / FL
Aug 29, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Gainesville / FL
Aug 25, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Gainesville / FL
Aug 20, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Gainesville / FL
Aug 19, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Gainesville / FL
Aug 18, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Gainesville / FL
Aug 14, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Gainesville / FL
Jul 30, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Gainesville / FL
Jul 27, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Gainesville / FL
Jul 17, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Gainesville / FL
Jul 11, 2026
2" Signatures 2" Estimated 1"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Gainesville / FL
Jul 10, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.75"
1 ground report Open report →
NEXRAD surface Storm date Gainesville / FL
Jul 6, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Gainesville / FL
May 27, 2026
1" Signatures 1" 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 Aug 30, 2026.