Hail in Bowling Green · Jul 9, 2026
NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1"; the estimated-size surface reached 0" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Jul 9, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 10th most severe storm Bowling Green 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 Bowling Green 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 Jul 9, 2026 sits in Bowling Green's hail record.
This was Bowling Green's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 4 days after the Jul 5, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 10th of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Bowling Green at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 9, 2026 convective day was bigger than Bowling Green: the same system put hail over 944 other tracked cities, 54 of them in Kentucky. Nearest: Morgantown (18 miles north, up to 1"); Bee Spring (18 miles north, up to 0.5"); Lewisburg (28 miles west, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 11 Bowling Green 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 Bowling Green. 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 Bowling Green 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
Bowling Green hail history
Other storms in Bowling Green.
Estimated-size surface Sep 5, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 22, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 11, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 21, 2026
3.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 11, 2026
3.25"
Estimated-size surface Jul 10, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 5, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 3, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 9, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Apr 27, 2026
1"The next storm won’t wait for you.
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