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Hail in New Smyrna Beach · Sep 11, 2026

Hit 3 days ago

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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Peak hail signal 0.5" ≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 241
Ground reports 0 none filed
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only

Convective day · Sep 11, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 16th most severe storm New Smyrna Beach has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 1.9 / 10
Storm severity score

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

1.9 /10
Peak hail signal
13 /100

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

Homes exposed
48 /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 New Smyrna Beach saw the hail — from two instruments

Sep 11, 2026 · New Smyrna Beach, 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.

Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over New Smyrna Beach, FL on Sep 11, 2026 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 0.5"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 11, 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 Sep 11, 2026 sits in New Smyrna Beach's hail record.

This was New Smyrna Beach's 22nd recorded hail day, arriving 6 days after the Sep 5, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 16th 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 Sep 11, 2026 convective day was bigger than New Smyrna Beach: the same system put hail over 322 other tracked cities, 7 of them in Florida. Nearest: Webster (79 miles southwest, up to 0.5"); Jacksonville (93 miles northwest, up to 0.5"); Thonotosassa (100 miles southwest, 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

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.

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

Roofing exposure

What this storm is worth to a roofer.

241 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$2.9M

Potential roof exposure — 241 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs
1 job
Illustrative work
~$15K

Close just 0.5% of the 241 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

September 2028

Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around September 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 $51 on top of the $150 plan.

New Smyrna Beach hail history

22 recorded storm days in New Smyrna Beach, FL
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over New Smyrna Beach, FL on Sep 5, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date New Smyrna Beach / FL

Sep 5, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over New Smyrna Beach, FL on Aug 22, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date New Smyrna Beach / FL

Aug 22, 2026

0.75"
Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over New Smyrna Beach, FL on Aug 20, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date New Smyrna Beach / FL

Aug 20, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over New Smyrna Beach, FL on Aug 19, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date New Smyrna Beach / FL

Aug 19, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over New Smyrna Beach, FL on Aug 4, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date New Smyrna Beach / FL

Aug 4, 2026

0.75"
Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over New Smyrna Beach, FL on Jul 31, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date New Smyrna Beach / FL

Jul 31, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over New Smyrna Beach, FL on Jul 30, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date New Smyrna Beach / 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 New Smyrna Beach, FL on Jul 26, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date New Smyrna Beach / FL

Jul 26, 2026

1.5"
Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over New Smyrna Beach, FL on Jul 20, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date New Smyrna Beach / FL

Jul 20, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over New Smyrna Beach, FL on Jul 12, 2026 NEXRAD surface
Storm date New Smyrna Beach / FL

Jul 12, 2026

0.75"
Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over New Smyrna Beach, FL on Jul 8, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date New Smyrna Beach / FL

Jul 8, 2026

1.25"
Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over New Smyrna Beach, FL on Jul 7, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date New Smyrna Beach / FL

Jul 7, 2026

No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over New Smyrna Beach, FL on Jul 5, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date New Smyrna Beach / FL

Jul 5, 2026

1.25"
Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over New Smyrna Beach, FL on Jul 4, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date New Smyrna Beach / FL

Jul 4, 2026

1.5"
Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over New Smyrna Beach, FL on Jun 25, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date New Smyrna Beach / FL

Jun 25, 2026

1"
Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over New Smyrna Beach, FL on Jun 24, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date New Smyrna Beach / FL

Jun 24, 2026

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

Jun 19, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over New Smyrna Beach, FL on Jun 16, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date New Smyrna Beach / FL

Jun 16, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over New Smyrna Beach, FL on Jun 2, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date New Smyrna Beach / FL

Jun 2, 2026

2.25"
Signatures 2.25" Estimated 1"
1 ground report Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over New Smyrna Beach, FL on Mar 16, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date New Smyrna Beach / FL

Mar 16, 2026

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

Mar 15, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" 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 12, 2026.