The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-16 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Warren County is hit in most years. 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 2025-05-16 near Bowling Green.
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 Bowling Green. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Warren 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 22 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.3 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 56 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2025, with 3 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 4 days since 2022, against 1.5 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 22 days on record passed it, 5%, the last on 2025-05-16. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 6 of the 22 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 Bowling Green -- 12 of the county's 22 hail days -- then Plum Springs (3), Hadley (3), Richardsville (3) and Oakland (2). That one town is named on 55% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Alvaton, Smiths Grove and Rich Pond on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Bowling Green | 7 | 1.00″ |
| Plum Springs | 3 | 2.50″ |
| Oakland | 2 | 2.00″ |
| 1 NNW Bowling Green | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Alvaton | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs February through July: 19 of the 22 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (86%). May is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (23%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August, October and December, outside that window. January, September and November are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 1 |
| October | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 15 reports on the map, the biggest 2.75 inches near Bowling Green. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-16 | 2.75″ | 15 |
| 2025-05-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-04 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-12-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-05-03 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2020-03-12 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2020-03-02 | 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: Butler County (15 hail days), Grayson County (16) and Hart County (14). Warren County takes more hail than any of them.
Butler County · Grayson County · Hart County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Warren County, Kentucky only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.