Hail in Webster · Apr 6, 2026
Convective day · Apr 6, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 12th most severe storm Webster 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
- 25 /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 Webster 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.
Radar signature field NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.
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.
The storm in context
Where Apr 6, 2026 sits in Webster's hail record.
This was Webster's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 22 days after the Mar 15, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 12th of the 18 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Webster at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 6, 2026 convective day was bigger than Webster: the same system put hail over 12 other tracked cities, 8 of them in Florida. Nearest: Saint Cloud (51 miles east, up to 0.5"); Palm Bay (98 miles east, up to 0.5"); Venus (103 miles south, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 18 Webster 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 Webster. 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.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Webster 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
Webster hail history
Other storms in Webster.
Estimated-size surface Sep 11, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 24, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 20, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 11, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 9, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 8, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 17, 2026
0.75"
NEXRAD surface Jul 12, 2026
0.5"
NEXRAD surface Jul 11, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 10, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 7, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 6, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 30, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jun 25, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 24, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 15, 2026
2"
Estimated-size surface Mar 5, 2026
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