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
Hail in Elizabethtown Apr 28, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Elizabethtown this day.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm — see the ground reports below.
Largest hailstone
0.5"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
3,338
Ground reports
1
1 tornadoThe 3rd most severe storm Elizabethtown 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.
3.0 /10
- Hail size
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 70 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Elizabethtown 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
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.
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 (192 miles southwest, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from Elizabethtown's Apr 28, 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.
Tornado reports
1 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
Reports came from Tonnieville — beyond Elizabethtown itself.
What 0.5" hail means for Elizabethtown 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.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$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
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 Elizabethtown on the live map
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Elizabethtown hail history
← All hail in Elizabethtown 4 recorded storm days in Elizabethtown, KY
Other storms in Elizabethtown
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.