Hail in Fluvanna · Apr 27, 2026
Convective day · Apr 27, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 3rd most severe storm Fluvanna 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 Fluvanna 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 signature field The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.
Estimated size field 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.
The storm in context
Where Apr 27, 2026 sits in Fluvanna's hail record.
This was Fluvanna's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 13 days after the Apr 14, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Fluvanna at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Apr 27, 2026 convective day was bigger than Fluvanna: the same system put hail over 1,188 other tracked cities, 51 of them in Texas. Nearest: Snyder (12 miles east, up to 1"); Justiceburg (14 miles north, up to 2.5"); Post (27 miles northwest, up to 4").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 5 Fluvanna 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 Fluvanna. 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 Fluvanna 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
Fluvanna hail history
Other storms in Fluvanna.
Estimated-size surface May 22, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface May 15, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Apr 30, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Apr 14, 2026
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