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Hail in Ponce De Leon Jul 7, 2026

Hit 27 days ago

NEXRAD caught this storm: 2 hail signatures up to 0.5". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.

Largest hailstone

0.5"

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

32

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 6th most severe storm Ponce De Leon 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.

1.5 /10
Hail size
13 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
30 /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 Ponce De Leon saw the hail — from two instruments

We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.

NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Ponce De Leon, FL on Jul 7, 2026

NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.

Max size 0.5" Detections 2

Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Jul 7, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jul 7, 2026 sits in Ponce De Leon's hail record

This was Ponce De Leon's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 7 days after the Jun 30, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Ponce De Leon at 0.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jul 7, 2026 convective day was bigger than Ponce De Leon: the same system put hail over 568 other tracked cities, 48 of them in Florida. Nearest: Defuniak Springs (29 miles north, up to 0.75"); Florala (44 miles northwest, up to 1"); Marianna (44 miles east, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills from Ponce De Leon's Jul 7, 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.

For this storm over Ponce De Leon, 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.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Ponce De Leon 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

$384K

Potential roof exposure — 32 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.

Track hail over Ponce De Leon on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Ponce De Leon storm history — this Jul 7, 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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Ponce De Leon hail history

9 recorded storm days in Ponce De Leon, FL

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Other storms in Ponce De Leon

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.