Hail in Homestead · Apr 20, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Homestead that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Apr 20, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 12th most severe storm Homestead 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 Homestead 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 Apr 20, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Homestead, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Apr 20, 2026 sits in Homestead's hail record.
This was Homestead's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 36 days after the Mar 15, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 12th of the 14 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Homestead at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 20, 2026 convective day was bigger than Homestead: the same system put hail over 6 other tracked cities, 3 of them in Florida. Nearest: Hollywood (35 miles north, up to 0.5"); Immokalee (77 miles northwest, up to 0.5"); Naples (97 miles northwest, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 14 Homestead 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Homestead. 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 Homestead 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
Homestead hail history
Other storms in Homestead.
Estimated-size surface Aug 3, 2026
0.5"
NEXRAD surface Aug 1, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 26, 2026
0.75"
NEXRAD surface Jul 25, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 9, 2026
0.5"
NEXRAD surface Jul 4, 2026
0.5"
NEXRAD surface Jul 2, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 1, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 30, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 2, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface May 31, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface May 3, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 15, 2026
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