The most recent reported hail day was 2020-07-12 -- 6 years ago, with nothing reported since. Bath County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-05-10 near Sharpsburg.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Kentucky. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2020-07-12, around Olympia. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Bath County addresses inside a hail swath above your size threshold into a door-knock list you can export, scoped to your approved markets.
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See call-center options ->NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 13 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 22 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 11 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 7 of the 13 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 0 days since 2022, against 1.1 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 13 days on record passed it, 8%, the last on 2011-05-10. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not April. 4 of the 13 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Kentucky, see the Kentucky hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Owingsville -- 4 of the county's 13 hail days -- then Sharpsburg (2), Salt Lick (2), Olympia (2) and Preston (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Sharpsburg | 2 | 2.75″ |
| Salt Lick | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Olympia | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Owingsville | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Preston | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs April through July: 11 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (85%). April is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (31%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in March and October, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 2 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Olympia. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-07-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-06-05 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2016-04-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-10-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-07-27 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2012-03-02 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2011-06-10 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2011-06-09 | 1.25″ | 1 |
The colored swath is NOAA's MRMS radar estimate of the largest hail per ~1 km cell; the dots are SPC ground reports. Yellow is about an inch, red 1.5 to 2″, purple 2″ and up (hail size vs roof damage). On this county's worst day the reports reached 2.75 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Morgan County (13 hail days), Carter County (14) and Madison County (15). Bath County sits in between.
Morgan County · Carter County · Madison County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Bath County, Kentucky only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.