Wind gust 70 mph
Pembroke Christian County
“(PAH)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Christian
Hail in Hopkinsville · Mar 15, 2026
NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1"; the estimated-size surface had no signal that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1" ≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint 0
Ground reports 1 1 wind
Radar surfaces 1 NEXRAD only
Convective day · Mar 15, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 6th most severe storm Hopkinsville has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 1.8 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
1.8 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Hopkinsville saw the hail — from two instruments
Mar 15, 2026 · Hopkinsville, KY
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.
NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
Radar signature field NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.
Max size
1"
Detections
0
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Mar 15, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Mar 15, 2026 sits in Hopkinsville's hail record.
This was Hopkinsville's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 6th of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Hopkinsville at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Mar 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Hopkinsville: the same system put hail over 695 other tracked cities, 7 of them in Kentucky. Nearest: Crofton (11 miles west, up to 1"); Hanson (23 miles northwest, up to 0"); Cadiz (35 miles southwest, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 9 Hopkinsville 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.
Wind 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 Pembroke — beyond Hopkinsville itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Hopkinsville 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
Hopkinsville hail history
Other storms in Hopkinsville.
9 recorded storm days in Hopkinsville, KY
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No ground reports filed Open report →
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Apr 27, 2026
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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 Sep 11, 2026.