Hail in Zolfo Springs · Sep 9, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Zolfo Springs that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Sep 9, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 23rd most severe storm Zolfo Springs has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Zolfo Springs saw the hail — from two instruments
Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.
Estimated size field Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 9, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Zolfo Springs, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Sep 9, 2026 sits in Zolfo Springs's hail record.
This was Zolfo Springs's 22nd recorded hail day, arriving 14 days after the Aug 26, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 23rd of the 23 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Zolfo Springs at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Sep 9, 2026 convective day was bigger than Zolfo Springs: the same system put hail over 71 other tracked cities, 3 of them in Florida. Nearest: Arcadia (28 miles southwest, up to 0.5"); Punta Gorda (35 miles south, up to 0.5"); Fort Myers (56 miles south, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 23 Zolfo Springs storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
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 Zolfo Springs 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.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Zolfo Springs roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Zolfo Springs hail history
Other storms in Zolfo Springs.
Estimated-size surface Sep 10, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 26, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 22, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 21, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 19, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 10, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 13, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 10, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 7, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 27, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 25, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 23, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 21, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 13, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 12, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 2, 2026
2.5"
Estimated-size surface May 24, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface May 15, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Apr 5, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 25, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Mar 15, 2026
2.25"
Estimated-size surface Mar 8, 2026
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