Storm report · Palm Beach

Hail in West Palm Beach Jul 13, 2026

Hit 21 days ago

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over West Palm Beach this day.

Largest hailstone

0.5"

≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

3,616

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 8th most severe storm West Palm Beach 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.

2.5 /10
Hail size
13 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
71 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How West Palm Beach saw the hail — from two instruments

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
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over West Palm Beach, FL on Jul 13, 2026

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 Jul 13, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over West Palm Beach, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jul 13, 2026 sits in West Palm Beach's hail record

This was West Palm Beach's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Jul 12, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 8th of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over West Palm Beach at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jul 13, 2026 convective day was bigger than West Palm Beach: the same system put hail over 92 other tracked cities, 32 of them in Florida. Nearest: Palm Beach (9 miles southeast, up to 0.75"); Belle Glade (26 miles west, up to 0.5"); Port Saint Lucie (45 miles northwest, up to 1").

These maps are stills from West Palm Beach's Jul 13, 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.

No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over West Palm 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.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for West Palm Beach roofs

Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$43M

Potential roof exposure — 3,616 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
18 jobs
Illustrative work
~$270K
Close just 0.5% of the 3,616 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.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over West Palm Beach on the live map

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West Palm Beach hail history

9 recorded storm days in West Palm Beach, FL

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Other storms in West Palm Beach

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 surfaces are detections and estimates, not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.