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Hail in Milton · Sep 21, 2026

Hit 10 days ago

The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Milton that day. 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 0
Ground reports 0 none filed
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only

Convective day · Sep 21, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 23rd most severe storm Milton has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 0.8 / 10
Storm severity score

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

0.8 /10
Peak hail signal
13 /100

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

Homes exposed
0 /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 Milton saw the hail — from two instruments

Sep 21, 2026 · Milton, FL

We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.

Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Milton, FL on Sep 21, 2026 Estimated size field

Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.

Max size 0.5"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 21, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Milton, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Sep 21, 2026 sits in Milton's hail record.

This was Milton's 23rd recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Sep 20, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 23rd of the 23 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Milton at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Sep 21, 2026 convective day was bigger than Milton: the same system put hail over 498 other tracked cities, 3 of them in Florida. Nearest: Molino (14 miles northwest, up to 0.5"); Brewton (41 miles north, up to 0.5"); Jackson (79 miles northwest, up to 0.75").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 23 Milton 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.

Nobody on the ground filed a report over Milton for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Milton 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

Milton hail history

Other storms in Milton.

23 recorded storm days in Milton, FL
← All hail in Milton
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Milton, FL on Sep 20, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Milton / FL

Sep 20, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Milton, FL on Aug 24, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Milton / FL

Aug 24, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Milton, FL on Aug 21, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Milton / FL

Aug 21, 2026

1.25"
Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Milton, FL on Aug 20, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Milton / FL

Aug 20, 2026

0.75"
Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Milton, FL on Aug 19, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Milton / FL

Aug 19, 2026

0.75"
Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Milton, FL on Aug 18, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Milton / FL

Aug 18, 2026

0.75"
Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Milton, FL on Aug 17, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Milton / FL

Aug 17, 2026

1"
Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Milton, FL on Aug 15, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Milton / FL

Aug 15, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Milton, FL on Aug 8, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Milton / FL

Aug 8, 2026

1"
Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Milton, FL on Jul 30, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Milton / FL

Jul 30, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Milton, FL on Jul 28, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Milton / FL

Jul 28, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Milton, FL on Jul 17, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Milton / FL

Jul 17, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Milton, FL on Jul 10, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Milton / FL

Jul 10, 2026

0.5"
Signatures 0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Milton, FL on Jul 8, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Milton / FL

Jul 8, 2026

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

Jul 7, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Milton, FL on Jun 30, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Milton / FL

Jun 30, 2026

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

Jun 1, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Milton, FL on May 31, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Milton / 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 Milton, FL on May 8, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Milton / FL

May 8, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Milton, FL on May 7, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Milton / FL

May 7, 2026

1.5"
Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Milton, FL on Apr 26, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Milton / FL

Apr 26, 2026

0.75"
Signatures 0.75" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Milton, FL on Jan 3, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Milton / FL

Jan 3, 2026

0.5"
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 22, 2026.