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Hail in Center Hill · Aug 17, 2026

Hit 26 days ago

NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0"; the estimated-size surface reached 1" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 1" ≈ quarter · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 660
Ground reports 0 none filed
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size

Convective day · Aug 17, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 2nd most severe storm Center Hill has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 2.9 / 10
Storm severity score

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

2.9 /10
Peak hail signal
25 /100

Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.

Homes exposed
56 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Center Hill saw the hail — from two instruments

Aug 17, 2026 · Center Hill, FL

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 signatures Surface resolved
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Center Hill, FL on Aug 17, 2026 Radar signature field

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 0" Detections 0
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Center Hill, FL on Aug 17, 2026 Estimated size field

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 1"

The storm in context

Where Aug 17, 2026 sits in Center Hill's hail record.

This was Center Hill's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 31 days after the Jul 17, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Center Hill at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Aug 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Center Hill: the same system put hail over 428 other tracked cities, 16 of them in Florida. Nearest: De Leon Springs (46 miles northeast, up to 0.5"); Daytona Beach (59 miles northeast, up to 0.5"); Palatka (65 miles north, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 7 Center Hill 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

No reports 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.

Nobody on the ground filed a report over Center Hill 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.

Damage-capable hail signal

What 1" hail means for Center Hill roofs.

Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.

Radar reading · not confirmed damage

Roofing exposure

What this storm is worth to a roofer.

660 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$7.9M

Potential roof exposure — 660 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs
3 jobs
Illustrative work
~$45K

Close just 0.5% of the 660 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 $139 on top of the $150 plan.

Center Hill hail history

7 recorded storm days in Center Hill, FL

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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 Sep 11, 2026.