Storm report · Polk

Hail in Lake Wales Jun 30, 2026

Hit 34 days ago

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 3 hail signatures up to 1", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.5" aloft.

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Largest hailstone

≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature

Homes in the hail footprint

529

Ground reports

none filed

Severity

The 7th 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.

2.9 /10

Hail size: 25 /100
Homes exposed: 54 /100
Ground truth: 0 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Lake Wales 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 radar-signature map of the hail storm over Lake Wales, FL on Jun 30, 2026 — 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.

Max size 1" Detections 3

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Lake Wales, FL on Jun 30, 2026 — Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.

Max size 0.5"

The storm in context

Where Jun 30, 2026 sits in Lake Wales's hail record

This was Lake Wales's 14th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Jun 29, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 7th of the 20 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Lake Wales at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jun 30, 2026 convective day was bigger than Lake Wales: the same system put hail over 720 other tracked cities, 97 of them in Florida. Nearest: Haines City (17 miles northwest, up to 1.5"); Frostproof (17 miles southwest, up to 1"); Kenansville (22 miles east, up to 1.25").

These maps are stills from Lake Wales's Jun 30, 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.

No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Lake Wales. 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.

Shingle-bruising hail

What 1" hail means for Lake Wales roofs

Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$6.3M

Potential roof exposure — 529 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs

3 jobs

Illustrative work

~$45K

Close just 0.5% of the 529 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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