Event Summary: Owensboro, KY Area Hailstorm (3/15/2025)

This is the 3rd significant event of 2025. This was part of a larger/historic tornado and severe weather event that produced 118 tornadoes across the country (the largest March tornado outbreak on record for the USA). Locally, one supercell tracked across Webster, McLean, Daviess, and Hancock Counties produced a major hailstorm with golfball to tennis ball-sized hail.

The red boxes are tornado warnings. There were a few from the supercell that tracked across the area, which was the supercell that produced the major hailstorm.
The hailcore is shown here in the supercell moving into Owensboro. This storm has already produced golfball-sized hail in the Sebree and Beech Grove area.

Facts About the Hailstorm

  • This storm produced well over $2 million dollars of damage across McLean and especially Daviess County. In Owensboro, Kentucky Farm Bureau set up a whole station to respond to claims.
  • Wind gusts of 70+MPH caused the hail to become more wind-driven leading to more damage.
  • Over 100 cars, homes, and structures were heavily damaged during this event.
  • This was the most damaging hailstorm in our area, since the Paducah/Calvert City, KY hailstorm of May 4th, 2003.

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