Hail in New Smyrna Beach · Jul 31, 2026
Convective day · Jul 31, 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
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 signature field NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.
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.
The storm in context
Where Jul 31, 2026 sits in New Smyrna Beach's hail record.
This was New Smyrna Beach's 16th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Jul 30, 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 31, 2026 convective day was bigger than New Smyrna Beach: the same system put hail over 238 other tracked cities, 16 of them in Florida. Nearest: Bunnell (28 miles northwest, up to 0.5"); Titusville (30 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Cocoa (43 miles south, up to 1").
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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over New Smyrna 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 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 30, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 26, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 20, 2026
0.5"
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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