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Hail in Fernandina Beach · Sep 11, 2026

Hit 3 days ago

The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Fernandina Beach 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 646
Ground reports 0 none filed
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only

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

Severity

The 4th most severe storm Fernandina Beach has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 2.2 / 10
Storm severity score

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

2.2 /10
Peak hail signal
13 /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 Fernandina Beach saw the hail — from two instruments

Sep 11, 2026 · Fernandina Beach, FL

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.

Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Fernandina Beach, FL on Sep 11, 2026 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.

Max size 0.5"

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

The storm in context

Where Sep 11, 2026 sits in Fernandina Beach's hail record.

This was Fernandina Beach's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 18 days after the Aug 24, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Fernandina Beach at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Sep 11, 2026 convective day was bigger than Fernandina Beach: the same system put hail over 322 other tracked cities, 7 of them in Florida. Nearest: Yulee (14 miles northwest, up to 0.75"); Jacksonville (30 miles southwest, up to 0.5"); New Smyrna Beach (115 miles south, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 6 Fernandina Beach 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 Fernandina Beach 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 Fernandina Beach 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.

646 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$7.8M

Potential roof exposure — 646 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 646 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

September 2028

Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around September 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 $136 on top of the $150 plan.

Fernandina Beach hail history

6 recorded storm days in Fernandina Beach, 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 12, 2026.