Hail size 1"
1 ENE Benton Marshall County
“(PAH)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Benton Apr 16, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Benton this day. At 2.5" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
2.5"
≈ baseball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
10,893
Ground reports
5
5 hailThe most severe storm Benton 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.
7.0 /10
- Hail size
- 63 /100
- Homes exposed
- 81 /100
- Ground truth
- 83 /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 Benton saw the hail — from two instruments
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
Radar-estimated hail size
Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Max size
2.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 16, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Benton, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 16, 2026 sits in Benton's hail record
This was Benton's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Benton at 2.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 16, 2026 convective day was bigger than Benton: the same system put hail over 151 other tracked cities, 23 of them in Kentucky. Nearest: Symsonia (7 miles northwest, up to 2.5"); Calvert City (10 miles north, up to 2.5"); Paducah (12 miles northwest, up to 2.5").
These maps are stills from Benton's Apr 16, 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.
Hail reports
5 reports Hail size 1"
5 SSW Calvert City Marshall County
“(PAH)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2"
5 SSW Calvert City Marshall County
“Late report. Some stones were egg size in Palma community. (PAH)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
6 S Calvert City Marshall County
“(PAH)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.5"
5 SE Reidland Marshall County
“(PAH)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Hail was reported over 23 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Calvert City and Reidland — beyond Benton itself.
What 2.5" hail means for Benton roofs
Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$131M
Potential roof exposure — 10,893 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
54 jobs
Illustrative work
~$810K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around April 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Benton on the live map
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Benton hail history
← All hail in Benton 9 recorded storm days in Benton, KY
Other storms in Benton
Jul 26, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 9, 2026
2.25" Signatures 2.25" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 8, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 5, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 2, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 1, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 31, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 19, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed
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.