The most recent reported hail day was 2025-04-10 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Cherokee County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2017-04-05 near Moshat.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Alabama. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2025-04-10, around Centre. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Cherokee 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 16 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 30 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2017, with 3 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 1 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
2 of the 16 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2017-04-05. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 6 of the 16 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Alabama, see the Alabama hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Cedar Bluff -- 5 of the county's 16 hail days -- then Centre (5), Moshat (2), Sand Rock (2) and Forney (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Ene Moshat | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Sand Rock | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Cedar Bluff | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 5 Nne Piedmont | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 1 Nne Broomtown | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 14 of the 16 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (88%). April is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (31%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July and August, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 4 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 1 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Centre. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-10 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-24 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2020-08-03 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2019-06-27 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2018-06-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-04-05 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2017-04-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-03-27 | 1.25″ | 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 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, over the state line included: DeKalb County (33 hail days), Etowah County (23), Calhoun County (27) and Polk County, Georgia (13). Cherokee County sits in between.
DeKalb County · Etowah County · Calhoun County · Polk County, Georgia
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Cherokee County, Alabama only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.