Hail on Date

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.

23spotter hail reports in the metro
2.00 inlargest reported, Goshen
397radar hail signatures inside the metro, 77 rated 100%
4.00 inlargest expected size on radar
Map of Louisville counties with 397 radar hail signatures and 23 spotter hail reports on March 15, 2025 Jefferson Oldham Bullitt Shelby Spencer Clark Floyd Harrison 2.00 in, Goshen
Amber dots are radar hail signatures inside the metro's counties (every cell the algorithm rated, 10% to 100% chance of hail), darkest under 1 inch, brighter from 1 inch, brightest at 2 inches and up. Triangles are spotter reports; the filled one is the largest. County names are drawn at each county's center.

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.

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.

TimeSizePlaceCountyNWS comment
6:27 am1.00MilltownHarrison, INPicture of various size hail. (LMK)
7:03 am1.251 NW CorydonHarrison, INReport from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (LMK)
7:04 am1.75CorydonHarrison, INTwitter post with picture on Chestnut Street. (LMK)
7:05 am1.501 E CorydonHarrison, INReport from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.) Time estimated from radar. (LMK)
7:08 am1.753 W LanesvilleHarrison, IN1.5 to 2 inch hail report. Time estimated from radar. (LMK)
7:10 am1.002 W LaconiaHarrison, INmPing report. Time estimated from radar. (LMK)
7:10 am1.00LanesvilleHarrison, INSpotter also reports lots of wind. (LMK)
7:16 am1.502 NW EdwardsvilleFloyd, INReport from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). (LMK)
7:23 am1.251 NW ClarksvilleClark, INReport from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (LMK)
7:24 am1.002 SE BridgeportJefferson, KYmPing report. Covered the ground. (LMK)
7:25 am1.001 W Pleasure Ridge ParJefferson, KYReport from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (LMK)
7:26 am1.752 NNE New AlbanyFloyd, INMellwood Dr area... quarter and golf ball hail. (LMK)
7:27 am1.001 SW SpeedClark, INReport from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (LMK)
7:28 am1.25JeffersonvilleClark, IN. (LMK)
7:28 am2.00CementvilleClark, INWind driven hail broke windows Had drifts of 6 inch depth. (LMK)
7:28 am2.001 NE SellersburgClark, INReport from mPING: Hen Egg (2.00 in.). (LMK)
7:31 am1.503 W Louisville Int'l AiJefferson, KYReport from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). (LMK)
7:35 am2.00GoshenOldham, KYPicture of 1.75 to 2 inch hail in Goshen. (LMK)
7:38 am1.502 SSE Saint MatthewsJefferson, KYTwitter post with picture of hail in Hikes Point. (LMK)
7:41 am1.001 NE HighviewJefferson, KYReport from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (LMK)
7:41 am1.50SkylightOldham, KY. (LMK)
7:46 am1.002 W MiddletownJefferson, KY. (LMK)
7:46 am1.003 SE WestportOldham, KYmping 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.

RadarSignaturesRated 100%1 in or more2 in or moreLargest expectedFirstLast
KSDF1471255182.50 in5:43 am12:44 pm
KLVX4741783.25 in5:47 am12:40 pm
KVWX441418144.00 in5:41 am12:43 pm
KIND441719122.75 in5:49 am12:41 pm
KILN3991362.75 in6:51 am12:39 pm
KJKL3151252.75 in7:21 am12:40 pm
KHPX25815112.75 in5:47 am12:00 pm
KOHX1661172.75 in6:54 am11:59 am
KCVG42201.25 in7:39 am12:36 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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Spotter reports come from the Storm Prediction Center's preliminary daily logs, grouped here by local calendar date (Eastern Daylight 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.