Hail in Merritt Island · Aug 25, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Merritt Island that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Aug 25, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 4th most severe storm Merritt Island 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 Merritt Island saw the hail — from two instruments
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
Estimated size field The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 25, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Merritt Island, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Aug 25, 2026 sits in Merritt Island's hail record.
This was Merritt Island's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 44 days after the Jul 12, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Merritt Island at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 25, 2026 convective day was bigger than Merritt Island: the same system put hail over 205 other tracked cities, 29 of them in Florida. Nearest: Titusville (9 miles northwest, up to 0.5"); Melbourne (25 miles south, up to 0.5"); Bunnell (66 miles northwest, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 4 Merritt Island 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.
For this storm over Merritt Island, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Merritt Island 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
Merritt Island hail history
Other storms in Merritt Island.
Estimated-size surface Jul 12, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 24, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 19, 2026
1"Take your next area into the field.
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