Tornado Rating unknown
6 NE Tonnieville Hardin County
“Refer to the public information statement about this short lived EF0 tornado that tracked along the Hardin LaRue County border area. (LMK)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Hardin
Hail in Elizabethtown · Apr 28, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Elizabethtown that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm. The ground reports below show where it was filed.
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Peak hail signal 0.5" ≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 3,338
Ground reports 1 1 tornado
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Apr 28, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 3rd most severe storm Elizabethtown has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 3.0 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
3.0 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 70 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Elizabethtown saw the hail — from two instruments
Apr 28, 2026 · Elizabethtown, KY
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 Surface resolved
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.
Max size
0.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 28, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Elizabethtown, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Apr 28, 2026 sits in Elizabethtown's hail record.
This was Elizabethtown's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 27 days after the Apr 1, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Elizabethtown at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 28, 2026 convective day was bigger than Elizabethtown: the same system put hail over 724 other tracked cities, 3 of them in Kentucky. Nearest: Boaz (164 miles west, up to 0.75"); Hickory (169 miles west, up to 0.5"); Clinton (184 miles west, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 4 Elizabethtown 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
1 report filed with the NWS
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.
Tornado reports
1 reportStorm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Reports came from Tonnieville — beyond Elizabethtown itself.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Elizabethtown roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
3,338 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$40M
Potential roof exposure — 3,338 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 17 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$255K
Close just 0.5% of the 3,338 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.
Claim window
April 2028
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.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $701 on top of the $150 plan.
Elizabethtown hail history
Other storms in Elizabethtown.
4 recorded storm days in Elizabethtown, KY
Estimated-size surface Storm date Elizabethtown / KY
Jul 26, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Elizabethtown / KY
Jul 21, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Elizabethtown / KY
Apr 1, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.