Wind gust 70 mph
Pembroke Christian County
“(PAH)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Hopkinsville Mar 15, 2026
NEXRAD caught this storm: 0 hail signatures up to 1". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
Largest hailstone
1"
≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
0
Ground reports
1
1 windThe 6th most severe storm Hopkinsville 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.
1.8 /10
- Hail size
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Hopkinsville 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.
NEXRAD radar signatures
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.
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 8 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: Cadiz (22 miles west, up to 1"); Crofton (22 miles northwest, up to 1"); Hanson (36 miles north, up to 0").
These maps are stills from Hopkinsville's Mar 15, 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.
Wind 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 Pembroke — beyond Hopkinsville itself.
What 1" hail means for Hopkinsville roofs
Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.
Track hail over Hopkinsville on the live map
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Hopkinsville hail history
← All hail in Hopkinsville 8 recorded storm days in Hopkinsville, KY
Other storms in Hopkinsville
Jul 17, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 10, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 9, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 5, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 4, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 2, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 27, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
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.