Storm report · Brevard

Hail in Melbourne Beach Jul 17, 2026

Hit 17 days ago

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Melbourne Beach this day.

Largest hailstone

0.5"

≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

2,654

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

Melbourne Beach's only recorded storm in the last 12 months

Storm severity score

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

2.5 /10
Hail size
13 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
68 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Melbourne Beach 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.

Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Melbourne Beach, FL on Jul 17, 2026

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"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 17, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Melbourne Beach, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jul 17, 2026 sits in Melbourne Beach's hail record

This was Melbourne Beach's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 1 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Melbourne Beach at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jul 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Melbourne Beach: the same system put hail over 415 other tracked cities, 71 of them in Florida. Nearest: Sebastian (7 miles south, up to 0.5"); Melbourne (23 miles northwest, up to 0.5"); Fort Pierce (37 miles south, up to 0.75").

These maps are stills from Melbourne Beach's Jul 17, 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.

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 Melbourne Beach. 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 Melbourne Beach roofs

Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$32M

Potential roof exposure — 2,654 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
13 jobs
Illustrative work
~$195K
Close just 0.5% of the 2,654 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.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over Melbourne Beach on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Melbourne Beach storm history — this Jul 17, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.

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Melbourne Beach hail history

1 recorded storm day in Melbourne Beach, FL

← All hail in Melbourne Beach
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.