Hail in Louisville on Wednesday, March 1, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 7 hail reports in Louisville on Wednesday, March 1, 2023, between 6:54 pm and 7:21 pm EST, in 4 of the metro's 8 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at 1 SSW Bradford (Harrison, IN) at 6:54 pm. NOAA radar flagged 286 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 23 rated a 100% chance of hail and 46 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 7 places in Clark, IN, Floyd, IN, Harrison, IN and Oldham, KY, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Bradford 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Central Barren 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Goshen 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Greenville 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Memphis 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- New Salisbury 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Otisco 1 report, up to 1.00 in
Every hail report logged that day
Times are Eastern Standard Time. Sizes are in inches, as reported. The comment is the National Weather Service's text as published in the Storm Prediction Center's daily log.
| Time | Size | Place | County | NWS comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6:54 pm | 1.75 | 1 SSW Bradford | Harrison, IN | (LMK) |
| 6:54 pm | 1.75 | 2 NNE Central Barren | Harrison, IN | (LMK) |
| 6:55 pm | 1.50 | New Salisbury | Harrison, IN | BROADCAST MEDIA RELAYED PICTURE OF HAIL MEASURED AGAINST A RULER. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (LMK) |
| 7:00 pm | 1.00 | Greenville | Floyd, IN | (LMK) |
| 7:15 pm | 1.00 | 1 NNW Goshen | Oldham, KY | REPORT FROM MPING OF QUARTER HAIL. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. (LMK) |
| 7:16 pm | 1.00 | Memphis | Clark, IN | (LMK) |
| 7:21 pm | 1.00 | 1 ENE Otisco | Clark, IN | (LMK) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
286 signatures from 9 radars fell inside the metro's counties on this local date, counting every cell the algorithm rated from a 10% to a 100% chance of hail; 23 were rated 100% and 0 had a maximum expected size of 2 inches or more.
| Radar | Signatures | Rated 100% | 1 in or more | 2 in or more | Largest expected | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KSDF | 100 | 5 | 20 | 0 | 1.75 in | 6:57 pm | 10:09 pm |
| KIND | 50 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 1.50 in | 7:02 pm | 8:20 pm |
| KVWX | 45 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 1.75 in | 7:03 pm | 8:11 pm |
| KLVX | 32 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1.50 in | 7:00 pm | 8:16 pm |
| KJKL | 19 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1.25 in | 7:02 pm | 8:11 pm |
| KILN | 19 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1.25 in | 7:03 pm | 7:31 pm |
| KOHX | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 7:03 pm | 8:19 pm |
| KHPX | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 in | 7:02 pm | 7:46 pm |
| KCVG | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 in | 7:23 pm | 7:32 pm |
Each radar that scans a storm writes its own signature about every 4 to 6 minutes, so one storm produces many rows and overlapping radars count it more than once. The raw rows for this day are in NOAA's Severe Weather Data Inventory.
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Spotter reports come from the Storm Prediction Center's preliminary daily logs, grouped here by local calendar date (Eastern Standard Time) and by county: a report counts for Louisville when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 8 counties (the counties of Jefferson, KY, Oldham, KY, Bullitt, KY, Shelby, KY, Spencer, KY, Clark, IN, Floyd, IN and Harrison, IN). Radar signatures are estimates from the Hail Detection Algorithm, not measured stones; they include every cell it rated, from a 10% to a 100% probability of hail. How these pages are built.