Storm report · Orange

Hail in Orlando May 12, 2026

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 9 hail signatures up to 3", and the radar-estimated size reached 1" aloft. At 3" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

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Largest hailstone

≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature

Homes in the hail footprint

2,044

Ground reports

none filed

Severity

The most severe storm Orlando 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.

6.2 /10

Hail size: 75 /100
Homes exposed: 66 /100
Ground truth: 0 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Orlando saw the hail — from two instruments

Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.

NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Orlando, FL on May 12, 2026 — The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.

Max size 3" Detections 9

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Orlando, FL on May 12, 2026 — Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.

Max size 1"

The storm in context

Where May 12, 2026 sits in Orlando's hail record

This was Orlando's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 10 days after the May 2, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 21 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Orlando at 3" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The May 12, 2026 convective day was bigger than Orlando: the same system put hail over 18 other tracked cities, 13 of them in Florida. Nearest: Longwood (24 miles northeast, up to 2.25"); Winter Springs (28 miles northeast, up to 3"); Haines City (28 miles south, up to 0.75").

These maps are stills from Orlando's May 12, 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.

Nobody on the ground filed a report over Orlando for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.

Severe, roof-replacing hail

What 3" hail means for Orlando 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

$25M

Potential roof exposure — 2,044 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs

10 jobs

Illustrative work

~$150K

Close just 0.5% of the 2,044 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 May 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

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Orlando hail history

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