The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-16 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Christian County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2010-05-14 near St. Elmo.
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 2025-05-16, around Oak Grove. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Christian 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 21 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 34 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2012, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 21 days on record passed it, 5%, the last on 2010-05-14. They land in the same month as everything else, May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 21 days.
Across the whole of Kentucky, see the Kentucky hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Hopkinsville -- 10 of the county's 21 hail days -- then Crofton (5), Pembroke (3), Gracey (2) and Oak Grove (2). That one town is named on 48% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Hopkinsville | 7 | 1.75″ |
| Pembroke | 3 | 1.25″ |
| Crofton | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 1 Sw St. Elmo | 1 | 2.50″ |
| 5 S Hopkinsville | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through May: 17 of the 21 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (81%). May is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (43%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in February, June and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 5 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 9 |
| June | 2 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Oak Grove. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-08 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2023-09-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-07 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2020-04-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-03-02 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2019-05-29 | 1.00″ | 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 2.5 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, over the state line included: Caldwell County (13 hail days), Hopkins County (16), Muhlenberg County (13) and Montgomery County, Tennessee (14). Christian County takes more hail than any of them.
Caldwell County · Hopkins County · Muhlenberg County · Montgomery County, Tennessee
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Christian County, Kentucky only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.