Storm report · Orange

Hail in Orlando Jul 26, 2026

Hit 8 days ago

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

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Largest hailstone

0.5"

≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft

Homes in the hail footprint

280

Ground reports

none filed

Severity

The 19th 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.

2.0 /10

Hail size: 13 /100
Homes exposed: 49 /100
Ground truth: 0 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Orlando 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.

NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Orlando, FL on Jul 26, 2026 — Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.

Max size 0.5" Detections 1

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Orlando, FL on Jul 26, 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 0.5"

The storm in context

Where Jul 26, 2026 sits in Orlando's hail record

This was Orlando's 20th recorded hail day, arriving 9 days after the Jul 17, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 19th of the 21 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Orlando at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jul 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Orlando: the same system put hail over 351 other tracked cities, 53 of them in Florida. Nearest: Clermont (14 miles northwest, up to 1.5"); Montverde (15 miles northwest, up to 1.5"); Polk City (16 miles southwest, up to 1").

These maps are stills from Orlando's Jul 26, 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 Orlando. 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.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Orlando roofs

Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$3.4M

Potential roof exposure — 280 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs

1 job

Illustrative work

~$15K

Close just 0.5% of the 280 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 July 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

21 recorded storm days in Orlando, FL

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