Storm report · Marion

Hail in Ocala Jul 27, 2026

Hit 7 days ago

NEXRAD caught this storm: 0 hail signatures up to 1". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.

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Largest hailstone

≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature

Homes in the hail footprint

Ground reports

none filed

Severity

The 15th most severe storm Ocala has seen in the last 12 months

Storm severity score

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

1.5 /10

Hail size: 25 /100
Homes exposed: 0 /100
Ground truth: 0 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Ocala 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.

NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Ocala, FL on Jul 27, 2026 — 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.

Max size 1" Detections 0

Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Jul 27, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jul 27, 2026 sits in Ocala's hail record

This was Ocala's 15th recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the Jul 25, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 15th of the 16 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Ocala at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jul 27, 2026 convective day was bigger than Ocala: the same system put hail over 803 other tracked cities, 29 of them in Florida. Nearest: Inglis (27 miles west, up to 1"); Crystal River (28 miles southwest, up to 1"); Chiefland (32 miles northwest, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills from Ocala's Jul 27, 2026 storm. In the Overview app the same surfaces are live — radar updating in real time, radar-estimated hail size as it forms, and NWS spotter reports pinned where they're filed — with a radar replay you can scrub back over any past day.

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 Ocala, 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.

Shingle-bruising hail

What 1" hail means for Ocala roofs

Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.

Track hail over Ocala on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Ocala storm history — this Jul 27, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.

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Ocala hail history

16 recorded storm days in Ocala, FL

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