Tornado Rating unknown
3 NNW Miami Lakes Miami-Dade County
“A brief EF0 tornado move through the Palm Springs North community. (MFL)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Hollywood Apr 7, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 10 hail signatures up to 1.5", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.5" aloft.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm — see the ground reports below.
Largest hailstone
1.5"
≈ ping-pong ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
12,233
Ground reports
1
1 tornadoThe most severe storm Hollywood has seen in the last 12 months
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
4.8 /10
- Hail size
- 38 /100
- Homes exposed
- 82 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Hollywood saw the hail — from two instruments
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
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
1.5"
Detections
10
Radar-estimated hail size
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"
Where Apr 7, 2026 sits in Hollywood's hail record
This was Hollywood's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Hollywood at 1.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 7, 2026 convective day was bigger than Hollywood: the same system put hail over 2 other tracked cities. Nearest: Gouverneur (1286 miles north, up to 0.5"); Chambers (1856 miles west, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills from Hollywood's Apr 7, 2026 storm. In the Overview app the same surfaces are live — radar updating in real time, radar-estimated hail size as it forms, and NWS spotter reports pinned where they're filed — with a radar replay you can scrub back over any past day.
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.
Tornado reports
1 report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Reports came from Miami Lakes — beyond Hollywood itself.
What 1.5" hail means for Hollywood roofs
At an inch and a half, hail cracks shingles, strips granules down to the mat, and dents gutters, vents, and siding. A footprint like this typically produces a wave of insurance claims — and the contractor who reaches the homeowner first usually gets the inspection.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$147M
Potential roof exposure — 12,233 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
61 jobs
Illustrative work
~$915K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around April 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Hollywood on the live map
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Hollywood hail history
← All hail in Hollywood 9 recorded storm days in Hollywood, FL
Other storms in Hollywood
Aug 1, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 27, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 6, 2026
0.5" Signatures 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 26, 2026
0.5" Signatures 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 14, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 2, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 31, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 20, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed
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 surfaces are detections and estimates,
not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.