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Hail in Florence · Aug 11, 2026

Hit 32 days ago

The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Florence that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 0.5" ≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft

Homes in the hail footprint 1,026

Ground reports 1 1 wind

Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only

Convective day · Aug 11, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

Florence's only recorded storm in the last 12 months

Composite score · 2.5 / 10

Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

2.5 /10

Peak hail signal: 13 /100
Homes exposed: 60 /100
Ground truth: 17 /100

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Florence saw the hail — from two instruments

Aug 11, 2026 · Florence, KY

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.

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Florence, KY on Aug 11, 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"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 11, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Florence, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Aug 11, 2026 sits in Florence's hail record.

This was Florence's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 1 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Florence at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Aug 11, 2026 convective day was bigger than Florence: the same system put hail over 1,041 other tracked cities, 83 of them in Kentucky. Nearest: Warsaw (15 miles south, up to 1"); Crittenden (15 miles south, up to 0.75"); Cincinnati (15 miles north, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 1 Florence storm date 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

1 report filed with the NWS

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.

Wind reports

1 report

Wind gust 59 mph

2 SE Hebron Boone County

7:44 PM UTC

“ASOS station KCVG Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. (ILN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Storm forensics

How the storm moved

Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports

Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.

Reports came from Hebron — beyond Florence itself.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Florence 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

Roofing exposure

What this storm is worth to a roofer.

1,026 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$12M

Potential roof exposure — 1,026 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs: 5 jobs
Illustrative work: ~$75K

Close just 0.5% of the 1,026 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.

Claim window

August 2028

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

Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $215 on top of the $150 plan.

Florence hail history

1 recorded storm day in Florence, KY

← All hail in Florence

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A storm day here is a convective day — it runs from noon to noon UTC, so late-night hail is grouped with the afternoon storm that spawned it rather than split across two calendar dates. Ground reports are public-domain observations from the NOAA Storm Prediction Center. Radar tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Aug 12, 2026.