Hail in West Liberty · Sep 5, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over West Liberty that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Sep 5, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 6th most severe storm West Liberty 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
- 0 /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 West Liberty saw the hail — from two instruments
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.
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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 5, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over West Liberty, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Sep 5, 2026 sits in West Liberty's hail record.
This was West Liberty's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 14 days after the Aug 22, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over West Liberty at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Sep 5, 2026 convective day was bigger than West Liberty: the same system put hail over 514 other tracked cities, 44 of them in Kentucky. Nearest: Ezel (7 miles south, up to 0.75"); Vanceburg (28 miles north, up to 0.75"); Paintsville (36 miles southeast, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 6 West Liberty 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.
No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over West Liberty. 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 West Liberty 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
West Liberty hail history
Other storms in West Liberty.
Estimated-size surface Aug 22, 2026
0.75"
NEXRAD surface Aug 16, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 11, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Apr 1, 2026
2.75"
Estimated-size surface Feb 19, 2026
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