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Hail in Punta Gorda Jul 26, 2026

Hit 8 days ago

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 6 hail signatures up to 1", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.5" aloft.

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Largest hailstone

≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature

Homes in the hail footprint

Ground reports

none filed

Severity

The 18th 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.

1.9 /10

Hail size: 25 /100
Homes exposed: 16 /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.

NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Punta Gorda, FL on Jul 26, 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 1" Detections 6

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

The storm in context

Where Jul 26, 2026 sits in Punta Gorda's hail record

This was Punta Gorda's 27th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Jul 25, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 18th of the 27 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Punta Gorda at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jul 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Punta Gorda: the same system put hail over 351 other tracked cities, 53 of them in Florida. Nearest: Arcadia (15 miles northwest, up to 1.5"); Venus (16 miles east, up to 1"); Palmdale (25 miles east, up to 0.75").

These maps are stills from Punta Gorda'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.

Nobody on the ground filed a report over Punta Gorda for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.

Shingle-bruising hail

What 1" 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

$60K

Potential roof exposure — 5 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.

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Punta Gorda hail history

27 recorded storm days in Punta Gorda, FL

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