Storm report · Polk

Hail in Lake Wales Jun 22, 2026

Hit 42 days ago

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Lake Wales this day. At 2" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

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Largest hailstone

≈ tennis ball · radar-estimated size aloft

Homes in the hail footprint

832

Ground reports

none filed

Severity

The 3rd most severe storm Lake Wales has seen in the last 12 months

Storm severity score

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

4.5 /10

Hail size: 50 /100
Homes exposed: 58 /100
Ground truth: 0 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Lake Wales saw the hail — from two instruments

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.

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Lake Wales, FL on Jun 22, 2026 — 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 2"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 22, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Lake Wales, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jun 22, 2026 sits in Lake Wales's hail record

This was Lake Wales's 10th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Jun 21, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 20 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Lake Wales at 2" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jun 22, 2026 convective day was bigger than Lake Wales: the same system put hail over 258 other tracked cities, 26 of them in Florida. Nearest: Avon Park (15 miles southwest, up to 0.5"); Haines City (17 miles northwest, up to 1"); Kenansville (22 miles east, up to 2").

These maps are stills from Lake Wales's Jun 22, 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.

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.

The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Lake Wales. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.

Severe, roof-replacing hail

What 2" hail means for Lake Wales roofs

Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$10M

Potential roof exposure — 832 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs

4 jobs

Illustrative work

~$60K

Close just 0.5% of the 832 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.

Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around June 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

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Lake Wales hail history

20 recorded storm days in Lake Wales, FL

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