Hail in Polk City Jul 25, 2026
Hit 9 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 44 hail signatures up to 3", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.5" aloft. At 3" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
3"
≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature1,060
0
none filedThe most severe storm Polk City has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 75 /100
- Homes exposed
- 61 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Polk City 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'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.
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.
Where Jul 25, 2026 sits in Polk City's hail record
This was Polk City's 9th recorded hail day, arriving 8 days after the Jul 17, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Polk City at 3" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 25, 2026 convective day was bigger than Polk City: the same system put hail over 303 other tracked cities, 42 of them in Florida. Nearest: Lakeland (16 miles southwest, up to 1.25"); Plant City (21 miles southwest, up to 1"); Mulberry (33 miles south, up to 2.5").
These maps are stills from Polk City's Jul 25, 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.
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.
For this storm over Polk City, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
What 3" hail means for Polk City 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.
$13M
Potential roof exposure — 1,060 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Polk City on the live map
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11 recorded storm days in Polk City, FL
Other storms in Polk City
Jul 30, 2026
0.75"
Jul 26, 2026
1"
Jul 17, 2026
0.75"
Jul 12, 2026
0.75"
Jul 8, 2026
1"
Jun 30, 2026
2"
Jun 29, 2026
0.75"
May 24, 2026
1.5"
Apr 25, 2026
0.5"
Mar 15, 2026
1"