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Hail in Hollywood · Aug 27, 2026

Hit 16 days ago

NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0"; the estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft. 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 1,345
Ground reports 0 none filed
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size

Convective day · Aug 27, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 12th most severe storm Hollywood has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 2.3 / 10
Storm severity score

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

2.3 /10
Peak hail signal
13 /100

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

Homes exposed
63 /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 Hollywood saw the hail — from two instruments

Aug 27, 2026 · Hollywood, 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 Hollywood, FL on Aug 27, 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 Hollywood, FL on Aug 27, 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 0.5"

The storm in context

Where Aug 27, 2026 sits in Hollywood's hail record.

This was Hollywood's 13th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Aug 26, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 12th of the 14 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Hollywood at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Aug 27, 2026 convective day was bigger than Hollywood: the same system put hail over 365 other tracked cities, 3 of them in Florida. Nearest: Hialeah (9 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Belle Glade (43 miles north, up to 0.5"); Ormond Beach (230 miles north, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 14 Hollywood 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.

The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Hollywood. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Hollywood 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.

1,345 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$16M

Potential roof exposure — 1,345 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs
7 jobs
Illustrative work
~$105K

Close just 0.5% of the 1,345 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 $282 on top of the $150 plan.

Hollywood hail history

14 recorded storm days in Hollywood, FL
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Hollywood, FL on Sep 4, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Hollywood / FL

Sep 4, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Hollywood, FL on Aug 26, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Hollywood / FL

Aug 26, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Hollywood, FL on Aug 22, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Hollywood / FL

Aug 22, 2026

0.75"
Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Hollywood, FL on Aug 3, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Hollywood / FL

Aug 3, 2026

0.75"
Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Hollywood, FL on Aug 1, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Hollywood / FL

Aug 1, 2026

1.25"
Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Hollywood, FL on Jul 27, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Hollywood / FL

Jul 27, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Hollywood, FL on Jul 6, 2026 NEXRAD surface
Storm date Hollywood / FL

Jul 6, 2026

0.5"
Signatures 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Hollywood, FL on Jun 26, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Hollywood / FL

Jun 26, 2026

0.5"
Signatures 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Hollywood, FL on Jun 14, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Hollywood / FL

Jun 14, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Hollywood, FL on Jun 2, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Hollywood / FL

Jun 2, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Hollywood, FL on May 31, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Hollywood / FL

May 31, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Hollywood, FL on Apr 20, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Hollywood / FL

Apr 20, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Hollywood, FL on Apr 7, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Hollywood / FL

Apr 7, 2026

1.5"
Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.5"
1 ground report Open report →

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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 5, 2026.