LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A hotel at French Lick Resort suffered extensive hail damage during severe storms on Sunday evening.

The West Baden Springs Hotel is still open to guests, but its well-known atrium is closed indefinitely after hail damage. Chuck Franz, CEO of French Lick Resort, was on the property when the storm hit.

"The hail about dime size, quarter size for five minutes then kind of increase in size another five minutes to about a golf ball size," Franz said. "It was just busting glass and things breaking outside, so you just hear shatter of glass intermittently."

The southern Indiana hotel dates back to 1902 and is a National Historic Landmark. It includes golf courses, an opera house and mineral spas. The hotel has more than 240 guestrooms and 40 balcony rooms that look out at the atrium.

On Monday, crews were on the roof trying to repair what they could of the 12-curved panels of glass that were broken. All 12 of the curved glass panels were damaged.

The hotel was at about 50% capacity at the time of the storm.

"After the event was over we had to vacate this area and move all the furniture back and then do cleanup because water was coming here," Franz said.

The Pete Dye Golf Course between the hotels also was damaged by the storm. Hail punched into the greens around the course.

Maintenance workers were out early Monday morning repairing as much as they could, which they expect will take a couple days. The course remains open though.

Dozens of cars in the hotel's parking lot suffered the brunt of the storm. Some windshields were shattered and other cars were dented.

While the hotel remains open, its signature atrium is closed for now.

"I can't really give anyone a timeline," said Franz. "We are going to work as hard as we can, as fast as we can to get it reopened."

No guests rooms were damaged during the storm. According to a news release, a few meeting rooms at the West Baden Springs Hotel sustained broken windows, along with a couple rooms at the French Lick Springs Hotel.

No one was injured at the resort during the storm.

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