Hail in Gainesville · Aug 18, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Gainesville that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Aug 18, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 14th most severe storm Gainesville 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 Gainesville 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 Aug 18, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Gainesville, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Aug 18, 2026 sits in Gainesville's hail record.
This was Gainesville's 10th recorded hail day, arriving 4 days after the Aug 14, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 14th of the 14 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Gainesville at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 18, 2026 convective day was bigger than Gainesville: the same system put hail over 309 other tracked cities, 38 of them in Florida. Nearest: High Springs (14 miles northwest, up to 0.5"); Lake Butler (21 miles north, up to 0.75"); Bell (25 miles west, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 14 Gainesville 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.
For this storm over Gainesville, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Gainesville 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
Gainesville hail history
Other storms in Gainesville.
Estimated-size surface Aug 29, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 25, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 20, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 19, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 14, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 30, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jul 27, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 17, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 11, 2026
2"
Estimated-size surface Jul 10, 2026
1.25"
NEXRAD surface Jul 6, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface May 27, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Mar 16, 2026
1"Take your next area into the field.
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