Storm report · Seminole

Hail in Longwood Jun 30, 2026

Hit 34 days ago

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 1 hail signature up to 0.75", and the radar-estimated size reached 0" aloft.

Largest hailstone

0.75"

≈ penny to nickel · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint

1,531

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 4th most severe storm Longwood 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.

2.7 /10
Hail size
19 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
64 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Longwood 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 signatures
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Longwood, 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 0.75" Detections 1
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Longwood, 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"
The storm in context

Where Jun 30, 2026 sits in Longwood's hail record

This was Longwood's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 49 days after the May 12, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Longwood at 0.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jun 30, 2026 convective day was bigger than Longwood: the same system put hail over 720 other tracked cities, 97 of them in Florida. Nearest: Mount Dora (14 miles northwest, up to 1"); Windermere (18 miles southwest, up to 1"); Winter Garden (18 miles southwest, up to 1").

These maps are stills from Longwood'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.

The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Longwood. 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.

Near the severe threshold

What 0.75" hail means for Longwood roofs

Hail this size sits right at the edge of the National Weather Service severe threshold. Newer roofs usually shrug it off, but aging or already-worn shingles can bruise, and soft metals — vents, flashing, gutters — often show the first dents.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$18M

Potential roof exposure — 1,531 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
8 jobs
Illustrative work
~$120K
Close just 0.5% of the 1,531 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.

Track hail over Longwood on the live map

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Longwood hail history

5 recorded storm days in Longwood, FL

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Other storms in Longwood

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 surfaces are detections and estimates, not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.