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Hail in Zolfo Springs May 15, 2026

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 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 8th most severe storm Zolfo Springs 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: 17 /100
Ground truth: 0 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Zolfo Springs 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 Zolfo Springs, FL on May 15, 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" Detections 0

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Zolfo Springs, FL on May 15, 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 May 15, 2026 sits in Zolfo Springs's hail record

This was Zolfo Springs's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 40 days after the Apr 5, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 8th of the 16 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Zolfo Springs at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The May 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Zolfo Springs: the same system put hail over 444 other tracked cities, 1 of them in Florida. Nearest: Arcadia (30 miles southwest, up to 0"); Kiln (515 miles west, up to 0.75"); Corinth (772 miles north, up to 0").

These maps are stills from Zolfo Springs's May 15, 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 Zolfo Springs. 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" hail means for Zolfo Springs 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

$72K

Potential roof exposure — 6 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

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

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Zolfo Springs hail history

16 recorded storm days in Zolfo Springs, FL

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