Hail in New Smyrna Beach · Jul 20, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over New Smyrna Beach that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Jul 20, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 19th most severe storm New Smyrna Beach 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 New Smyrna Beach 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 Jul 20, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over New Smyrna Beach, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Jul 20, 2026 sits in New Smyrna Beach's hail record.
This was New Smyrna Beach's 13th recorded hail day, arriving 8 days after the Jul 12, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 19th of the 22 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over New Smyrna Beach at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 20, 2026 convective day was bigger than New Smyrna Beach: the same system put hail over 553 other tracked cities, 5 of them in Florida. Nearest: Saint Augustine (63 miles north, up to 0.5"); Sebastian (88 miles south, up to 0.5"); Jacksonville (93 miles northwest, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 22 New Smyrna Beach 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 New Smyrna Beach, 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 New Smyrna Beach 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
New Smyrna Beach hail history
Other storms in New Smyrna Beach.
Estimated-size surface Sep 11, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Sep 5, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 22, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 20, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 19, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 4, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 31, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 30, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 26, 2026
1.5"
NEXRAD surface Jul 12, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 8, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jul 7, 2026
Estimated-size surface Jul 5, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jul 4, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 25, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 24, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 19, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 16, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 2, 2026
2.25"
Estimated-size surface Mar 16, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Mar 15, 2026
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