Hail in Louisville · May 19, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Louisville that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · May 19, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 8th most severe storm Louisville 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
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 75 /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 Louisville 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.
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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for May 19, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Louisville, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where May 19, 2026 sits in Louisville's hail record.
This was Louisville's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 3 days after the May 16, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 8th of the 15 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Louisville at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The May 19, 2026 convective day was bigger than Louisville: the same system put hail over 263 other tracked cities, 28 of them in Kentucky. Nearest: Smithfield (9 miles northeast, up to 0.5"); Eminence (13 miles northeast, up to 0.5"); Shelbyville (14 miles east, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 15 Louisville 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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Louisville for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Louisville 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.
Potential roof exposure
$68M
Potential roof exposure — 5,692 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 28 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$420K
Close just 0.5% of the 5,692 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
May 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around May 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 $1,195 on top of the $150 plan.
Louisville hail history
Other storms in Louisville.
Estimated-size surface Sep 18, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Sep 5, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 16, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 11, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 21, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 17, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 8, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jul 4, 2026
1"
NEXRAD surface Jun 26, 2026
Estimated-size surface Jun 11, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface May 16, 2026
1.75"
NEXRAD surface May 3, 2026
Estimated-size surface Apr 1, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 22, 2026
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