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Hail in Vero Beach · Jul 26, 2026

NEXRAD logged 9 hail signatures up to 1.25"; the estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 1.25" ≈ half-dollar · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint 0
Ground reports 0 none filed
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size

Convective day · Jul 26, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 10th most severe storm Vero 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
31 /100

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

Homes exposed
0 /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 Vero Beach saw the hail — from two instruments

Jul 26, 2026 · Vero Beach, FL

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.

NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Vero Beach, FL on Jul 26, 2026 Radar signature field

Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.

Max size 1.25" Detections 9
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Vero Beach, FL on Jul 26, 2026 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.

Max size 0.5"

The storm in context

Where Jul 26, 2026 sits in Vero Beach's hail record.

This was Vero Beach's 11th recorded hail day, arriving 14 days after the Jul 12, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 10th of the 18 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Vero Beach at 1.25" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jul 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Vero Beach: the same system put hail over 351 other tracked cities, 53 of them in Florida. Nearest: Fellsmere (12 miles east, up to 1"); Palm Bay (18 miles northeast, up to 1.25"); Kenansville (34 miles northwest, up to 3").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 18 Vero 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.

No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Vero Beach. 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.

Damage-capable hail signal

What 1.25" hail means for Vero Beach roofs.

Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.

Radar reading · not confirmed damage

Vero Beach hail history

18 recorded storm days in Vero Beach, FL
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Vero Beach, FL on Sep 10, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Vero Beach / FL

Sep 10, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Map unavailable
NEXRAD surface
Storm date Vero 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 Vero Beach, FL on Aug 26, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Vero Beach / FL

Aug 26, 2026

0.75"
Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Vero Beach, FL on Aug 21, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Vero Beach / FL

Aug 21, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Vero Beach, FL on Aug 20, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Vero 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 Vero Beach, FL on Aug 4, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Vero Beach / FL

Aug 4, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Vero Beach, FL on Jul 28, 2026 NEXRAD surface
Storm date Vero Beach / FL

Jul 28, 2026

0.75"
Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Vero Beach, FL on Jul 12, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Vero Beach / FL

Jul 12, 2026

1.5"
Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Vero Beach, FL on Jul 10, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Vero Beach / FL

Jul 10, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Vero Beach, FL on Jun 30, 2026 NEXRAD surface
Storm date Vero Beach / FL

Jun 30, 2026

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

Jun 25, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Vero Beach, FL on Jun 24, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Vero Beach / FL

Jun 24, 2026

1.25"
Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Vero Beach, FL on Jun 23, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Vero Beach / FL

Jun 23, 2026

1"
Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Vero Beach, FL on Jun 21, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Vero Beach / FL

Jun 21, 2026

1"
Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Vero Beach, FL on Jun 19, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Vero Beach / FL

Jun 19, 2026

1"
Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Vero Beach, FL on May 11, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Vero Beach / FL

May 11, 2026

1.5"
Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Vero Beach, FL on May 10, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Vero Beach / FL

May 10, 2026

1"
Signatures 1"
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 11, 2026.