Alabama was hit as recently as 2026-06-01, 60 days ago. NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 383 separate hail days in Alabama since 2010, across 2,246 individual storm reports. 63 of those days brought hail 2 inches or larger, and the largest stone on record is 5 inches on 2018-03-19 near Cullman.
Alabama's Birmingham-Huntsville corridor is struck by hail from the spring severe-weather season across the Deep South. Pick a date below to see the NOAA radar swath and reports, or check a specific address.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Alabama. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
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See call-center options ->Alabama averages 23 reported hail days a year across 17 years of NOAA archive, about 4 of them carrying hail 2″ or larger -- the size that routinely totals roofs. Major metros watched here: Birmingham, Huntsville, Montgomery, Mobile.
Alabama's busiest hail month is June, with 77 of its 383 hail days on record. March through August holds 322 of them, 84% of the record.
| Month | Hail days since 2010 |
|---|---|
| January | 14 |
| February | 14 |
| March | 63 |
| April | 58 |
| May | 69 |
| June | 77 |
| July | 35 |
| August | 20 |
| September | 8 |
| October | 9 |
| November | 6 |
| December | 10 |
| County | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Jefferson | 57 | 3.00″ |
| Madison | 49 | 2.75″ |
| Cullman | 33 | 5.00″ |
| DeKalb | 33 | 2.75″ |
| Limestone | 30 | 3.00″ |
| Walker | 30 | 2.75″ |
44 Alabama counties have at least 13 NOAA hail days on record since 2010 -- enough archive signal for a page of their own. Ordered by hail days.
Jefferson County · Madison County · Cullman County · DeKalb County · Limestone County · Mobile County · Walker County · Tuscaloosa County · Morgan County · Blount County · Calhoun County · Marion County · Shelby County · Baldwin County · Lawrence County · Franklin County · Jackson County · Marshall County · Colbert County · Etowah County · Lamar County · Lauderdale County · Chilton County · Clarke County · Elmore County · Fayette County · Lee County · Talladega County · St. Clair County · Sumter County · Winston County · Cherokee County · Coosa County · Tallapoosa County · Escambia County · Montgomery County · Pickens County · Washington County · Marengo County · Covington County · Dale County · Dallas County · Hale County · Russell County
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-07 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2026-05-06 | 2.75″ | 11 |
| 2026-04-28 | 1.00″ | 4 |
| 2026-03-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-02-26 | 2.00″ | 42 |
| 2026-01-03 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2025-11-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
The colored swath is NOAA's MRMS radar estimate of the largest hail in each ~1 km cell; the dots are individual SPC ground reports. Yellow is around an inch, red is 1.5 to 2″, and purple is 2″ and up -- see how hail size maps to roof damage. Click any spot on the map to see the hail history at that point, or look up a full street address on the hail history by address tool. Today's nationwide activity is on today's hail report.
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Alabama only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.