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Hail in Punta Gorda Jul 10, 2026

Hit 24 days ago

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 12 hail signatures up to 1.25", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.5" aloft.

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Largest hailstone

1.25"

≈ half-dollar · the largest NEXRAD radar signature

Homes in the hail footprint

1,186

Ground reports

none filed

Severity

The 3rd 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.

3.4 /10

Hail size: 31 /100
Homes exposed: 61 /100
Ground truth: 0 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Punta Gorda 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 Punta Gorda, FL on Jul 10, 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 1.25" Detections 12

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Punta Gorda, FL on Jul 10, 2026 — 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 0.5"

The storm in context

Where Jul 10, 2026 sits in Punta Gorda's hail record

This was Punta Gorda's 23rd recorded hail day, arriving 3 days after the Jul 7, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 27 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Punta Gorda at 1.25" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jul 10, 2026 convective day was bigger than Punta Gorda: the same system put hail over 682 other tracked cities, 89 of them in Florida. Nearest: Arcadia (15 miles northwest, up to 1.5"); Venus (16 miles east, up to 1"); Labelle (23 miles southeast, up to 1").

These maps are stills from Punta Gorda's Jul 10, 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 Punta Gorda. 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.

Shingle-bruising hail

What 1.25" hail means for Punta Gorda roofs

Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$14M

Potential roof exposure — 1,186 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs

6 jobs

Illustrative work

~$90K

Close just 0.5% of the 1,186 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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Punta Gorda hail history

27 recorded storm days in Punta Gorda, FL

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