Hail in Palm Bay · Aug 26, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Palm Bay that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Aug 26, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 10th most severe storm Palm Bay 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 Palm Bay saw the hail — from two instruments
Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.
Estimated size field Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 26, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Palm Bay, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Aug 26, 2026 sits in Palm Bay's hail record.
This was Palm Bay's 11th recorded hail day, arriving 4 days after the Aug 22, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 10th of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Palm Bay at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Palm Bay: the same system put hail over 440 other tracked cities, 34 of them in Florida. Nearest: Fellsmere (14 miles south, up to 0.75"); Vero Beach (18 miles southwest, up to 0.75"); Christmas (48 miles northwest, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 11 Palm Bay 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.
No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Palm Bay. That is common: a report depends on someone being there to see it and take the time to call it in. The radar surfaces above are the record here — the storm was detected from above even though no one on the ground logged it.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Palm Bay 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
Palm Bay hail history
Other storms in Palm Bay.
Estimated-size surface Aug 22, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 12, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 26, 2026
1.25"
NEXRAD surface Jul 10, 2026
1"
NEXRAD surface Jul 5, 2026
Estimated-size surface Jun 23, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 19, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface May 10, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Apr 6, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 15, 2026
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