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Hail in Vine Grove · Aug 12, 2026

Hit 31 days ago

NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0"; the estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 0.5" ≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 3,418
Ground reports 0 none filed
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size

Convective day · Aug 12, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 4th most severe storm Vine Grove has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 2.5 / 10
Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

2.5 /10
Peak hail signal
13 /100

Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.

Homes exposed
71 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Vine Grove saw the hail — from two instruments

Aug 12, 2026 · Vine Grove, KY

Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.

NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Vine Grove, KY on Aug 12, 2026 Radar signature field

NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.

Max size 0" Detections 0
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Vine Grove, KY on Aug 12, 2026 Estimated size field

Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.

Max size 0.5"

The storm in context

Where Aug 12, 2026 sits in Vine Grove's hail record.

This was Vine Grove's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Aug 11, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Vine Grove at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Aug 12, 2026 convective day was bigger than Vine Grove: the same system put hail over 507 other tracked cities, 23 of them in Kentucky. Nearest: Fort Knox (9 miles northeast, up to 0.5"); Harned (13 miles southwest, up to 0.75"); Hudson (18 miles southwest, up to 0.75").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 4 Vine Grove 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

No reports 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.

No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Vine Grove. That is common: a report depends on someone being there to see it and take the time to call it in. The radar surfaces above are the record here — the storm was detected from above even though no one on the ground logged it.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Vine Grove 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.

3,418 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$41M

Potential roof exposure — 3,418 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 3,418 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

August 2028

Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around August 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 $718 on top of the $150 plan.

Vine Grove hail history

4 recorded storm days in Vine Grove, KY

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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 6, 2026.