Hail in Beaver Dam Apr 27, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Beaver Dam this day.
0.5"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft602
0
none filedThe 5th most severe storm Beaver Dam has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 56 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Beaver Dam 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 over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 27, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Beaver Dam, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 27, 2026 sits in Beaver Dam's hail record
This was Beaver Dam's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 5th of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Beaver Dam at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 27, 2026 convective day was bigger than Beaver Dam: the same system put hail over 1,188 other tracked cities, 76 of them in Kentucky. Nearest: Centertown (5 miles west, up to 0.5"); Horse Branch (11 miles east, up to 0.5"); Olaton (13 miles northeast, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from Beaver Dam's Apr 27, 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.
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 Beaver Dam. 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.
What 0.5" hail means for Beaver Dam 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.
$7.2M
Potential roof exposure — 602 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Beaver Dam on the live map
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6 recorded storm days in Beaver Dam, KY
Other storms in Beaver Dam
Jul 21, 2026
1.5"
Jul 9, 2026
1"
Jul 5, 2026
1.25"
Jul 3, 2026
1.75"
Jun 11, 2026
0.5"