Storm report · Orange

Hail in Orlando Jul 12, 2026

Hit 22 days ago

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 15 hail signatures up to 1.75", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.75" aloft.

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Largest hailstone

1.75"

≈ golf ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature

Homes in the hail footprint

Ground reports

none filed

Severity

The 13th 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.

3.6 /10

Hail size: 44 /100
Homes exposed: 40 /100
Ground truth: 0 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Orlando 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 Orlando, FL on Jul 12, 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 1.75" Detections 15

Radar-estimated hail size

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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 0.75"

The storm in context

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

This was Orlando's 17th recorded hail day, arriving 4 days after the Jul 8, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 13th of the 21 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Orlando at 1.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jul 12, 2026 convective day was bigger than Orlando: the same system put hail over 367 other tracked cities, 46 of them in Florida. Nearest: Clermont (14 miles northwest, up to 1.5"); Polk City (16 miles southwest, up to 0.75"); Webster (30 miles west, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills from Orlando's Jul 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.

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

Widespread claimable damage

What 1.75" hail means for Orlando roofs

At an inch and a half, hail cracks shingles, strips granules down to the mat, and dents gutters, vents, and siding. A footprint like this typically produces a wave of insurance claims — and the contractor who reaches the homeowner first usually gets the inspection.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$1.2M

Potential roof exposure — 97 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

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

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Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Orlando storm history — this Jul 12, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.

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Orlando hail history

21 recorded storm days in Orlando, FL

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