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Hail in Punta Gorda Mar 9, 2026

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Punta Gorda this day.

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Largest hailstone

0.5"

≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft

Homes in the hail footprint

Ground reports

none filed

Severity

The 21st most severe storm Punta Gorda 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
Homes exposed: 32 /100
Ground truth: 0 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Punta Gorda 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.

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Punta Gorda, FL on Mar 9, 2026 — Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.

Max size 0.5"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Mar 9, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Punta Gorda, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Mar 9, 2026 sits in Punta Gorda's hail record

This was Punta Gorda's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the Mar 7, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 21st of the 27 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Punta Gorda at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Mar 9, 2026 convective day was bigger than Punta Gorda: the same system put hail over 99 other tracked cities, 1 of them in Florida. Nearest: Okeechobee (56 miles northeast, up to 0.5"); Sylacauga (506 miles northwest, up to 0.5"); Shelby (513 miles northwest, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills from Punta Gorda's Mar 9, 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 Punta Gorda, 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 Punta Gorda 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

$456K

Potential roof exposure — 38 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

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

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Punta Gorda hail history

27 recorded storm days in Punta Gorda, FL

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