Hail size 1"
2 NE Palm Bay Brevard County
“Resident reported penny to quarter sized hail in Palm Bay near Malabar Rd and I-95. (MLB)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Brevard
Hail in Melbourne · Mar 15, 2026
NEXRAD logged 15 hail signatures up to 1.25"; the estimated-size surface reached 0.75" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1.25" ≈ half-dollar · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint 4,028
Ground reports 1 1 hail
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size
Convective day · Mar 15, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The most severe storm Melbourne has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 3.9 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
3.9 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 72 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Melbourne saw the hail — from two instruments
Mar 15, 2026 · Melbourne, FL
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.
NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
Radar signature field The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.
Max size
1.25"
Detections
15
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
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.
Max size
0.75"
The storm in context
Where Mar 15, 2026 sits in Melbourne's hail record.
This was Melbourne's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 14 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Melbourne at 1.25" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Mar 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Melbourne: the same system put hail over 695 other tracked cities, 66 of them in Florida. Nearest: Malabar (16 miles southeast, up to 1.75"); Palm Bay (21 miles southeast, up to 2"); Cape Canaveral (21 miles northeast, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 14 Melbourne 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
1 report 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.
Hail reports
1 reportStorm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Reports came from Palm Bay — beyond Melbourne itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1.25" hail means for Melbourne roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
4,028 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$48M
Potential roof exposure — 4,028 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 20 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$300K
Close just 0.5% of the 4,028 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
March 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around March 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 $846 on top of the $150 plan.
Melbourne hail history
Other storms in Melbourne.
14 recorded storm days in Melbourne, FL
Estimated-size surface Storm date Melbourne / FL
Sep 5, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Melbourne / FL
Aug 25, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Melbourne / FL
Aug 21, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Melbourne / FL
Aug 20, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Melbourne / FL
Jul 17, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
NEXRAD surface Storm date Melbourne / FL
Jul 10, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Melbourne / FL
Jul 5, 2026
0.5" Signatures 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Melbourne / FL
Jun 29, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Melbourne / FL
Jun 21, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Melbourne / FL
Jun 19, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Melbourne / FL
Jun 3, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Melbourne / FL
Jun 2, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Melbourne / FL
May 10, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 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 6, 2026.