The most recent reported hail day was 2024-05-22 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Hardin 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 2022-04-13 near Radcliff.
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 2024-05-22, around Glendale. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Hardin 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 15 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 29 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2017 alone produced 3 of the 15 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
2 of the 15 days reached 2 inches or more -- 13%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2022-05-19. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 5 of the 15 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 Elizabethtown -- 6 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Radcliff (5), Rineyville (3), Howe Valley (3) and Vine Grove (2). That one town is named on 40% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Elizabethtown | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Howe Valley | 3 | 1.25″ |
| 1 S Radcliff | 2 | 2.75″ |
| Rineyville | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 2 S Vine Grove | 2 | 1.25″ |
The season runs March through May: 12 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (80%). May is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (33%). 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, July and December, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 5 |
| July | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Glendale. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-02-27 | 1.75″ | 6 |
| 2022-05-19 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2022-04-13 | 2.75″ | 2 |
| 2018-04-03 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2017-04-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-03-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-03-27 | 1.00″ | 3 |
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: Nelson County (15 hail days), Breckinridge County (22) and Grayson County (16). Hardin County sits in between.
Nelson County · Breckinridge County · Grayson County
Back to the Kentucky hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Hardin County, Kentucky only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.