Hail in Louisville on Saturday, March 15, 2025
The Storm Prediction Center logged 23 hail reports in Louisville on Saturday, March 15, 2025, between 6:27 am and 7:46 am EDT, in 5 of the metro's 8 counties. The largest was 2.00 inches at Goshen (Oldham, KY) at 7:35 am. NOAA radar flagged 397 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 77 rated a 100% chance of hail and 162 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 20 places in Clark, IN, Floyd, IN, Harrison, IN, Jefferson, KY and Oldham, KY, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Corydon 3 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Lanesville 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Bridgeport 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Cementville 1 report, up to 2.00 in
- Clarksville 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Edwardsville 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Goshen 1 report, up to 2.00 in
- Highview 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Jeffersonville 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Laconia 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Louisville Int'l Ai 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Middletown 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Milltown 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- New Albany 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Pleasure Ridge Par 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Saint Matthews 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Sellersburg 1 report, up to 2.00 in
- Skylight 1 report, up to 1.50 in
- Speed 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Westport 1 report, up to 1.00 in
Every hail report logged that day
Times are Eastern Daylight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6:27 am | 1.00 | Milltown | Harrison, IN | Picture of various size hail. (LMK) |
| 7:03 am | 1.25 | 1 NW Corydon | Harrison, IN | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (LMK) |
| 7:04 am | 1.75 | Corydon | Harrison, IN | Twitter post with picture on Chestnut Street. (LMK) |
| 7:05 am | 1.50 | 1 E Corydon | Harrison, IN | Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.) Time estimated from radar. (LMK) |
| 7:08 am | 1.75 | 3 W Lanesville | Harrison, IN | 1.5 to 2 inch hail report. Time estimated from radar. (LMK) |
| 7:10 am | 1.00 | 2 W Laconia | Harrison, IN | mPing report. Time estimated from radar. (LMK) |
| 7:10 am | 1.00 | Lanesville | Harrison, IN | Spotter also reports lots of wind. (LMK) |
| 7:16 am | 1.50 | 2 NW Edwardsville | Floyd, IN | Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). (LMK) |
| 7:23 am | 1.25 | 1 NW Clarksville | Clark, IN | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (LMK) |
| 7:24 am | 1.00 | 2 SE Bridgeport | Jefferson, KY | mPing report. Covered the ground. (LMK) |
| 7:25 am | 1.00 | 1 W Pleasure Ridge Par | Jefferson, KY | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (LMK) |
| 7:26 am | 1.75 | 2 NNE New Albany | Floyd, IN | Mellwood Dr area... quarter and golf ball hail. (LMK) |
| 7:27 am | 1.00 | 1 SW Speed | Clark, IN | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (LMK) |
| 7:28 am | 1.25 | Jeffersonville | Clark, IN | . (LMK) |
| 7:28 am | 2.00 | Cementville | Clark, IN | Wind driven hail broke windows Had drifts of 6 inch depth. (LMK) |
| 7:28 am | 2.00 | 1 NE Sellersburg | Clark, IN | Report from mPING: Hen Egg (2.00 in.). (LMK) |
| 7:31 am | 1.50 | 3 W Louisville Int'l Ai | Jefferson, KY | Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). (LMK) |
| 7:35 am | 2.00 | Goshen | Oldham, KY | Picture of 1.75 to 2 inch hail in Goshen. (LMK) |
| 7:38 am | 1.50 | 2 SSE Saint Matthews | Jefferson, KY | Twitter post with picture of hail in Hikes Point. (LMK) |
| 7:41 am | 1.00 | 1 NE Highview | Jefferson, KY | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (LMK) |
| 7:41 am | 1.50 | Skylight | Oldham, KY | . (LMK) |
| 7:46 am | 1.00 | 2 W Middletown | Jefferson, KY | . (LMK) |
| 7:46 am | 1.00 | 3 SE Westport | Oldham, KY | mping report of quarter hail. Time estimated from radar. (LMK) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
397 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; 77 were rated 100% and 81 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 | 147 | 12 | 55 | 18 | 2.50 in | 5:43 am | 12:44 pm |
| KLVX | 47 | 4 | 17 | 8 | 3.25 in | 5:47 am | 12:40 pm |
| KVWX | 44 | 14 | 18 | 14 | 4.00 in | 5:41 am | 12:43 pm |
| KIND | 44 | 17 | 19 | 12 | 2.75 in | 5:49 am | 12:41 pm |
| KILN | 39 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 2.75 in | 6:51 am | 12:39 pm |
| KJKL | 31 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 2.75 in | 7:21 am | 12:40 pm |
| KHPX | 25 | 8 | 15 | 11 | 2.75 in | 5:47 am | 12:00 pm |
| KOHX | 16 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 2.75 in | 6:54 am | 11:59 am |
| KCVG | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1.25 in | 7:39 am | 12:36 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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