The most recent reported hail day was 2024-05-12 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Clarke 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 2021-04-24 near Rural.
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 2024-05-12, around Choctaw Bluff. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Clarke 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. They carry 37 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2021, 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.
3 of the 22 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2023-06-16. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 8 of the 22 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 Grove Hill -- 6 of the county's 22 hail days -- then Jackson (4), Coffeeville (3), Fulton (3) and West Bend (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Tallahatta Springs and Thomasville on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| West Bend | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 4 Sse Coffeeville | 2 | 2.50″ |
| Fulton | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 3 S Grove Hill | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Grove Hill | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs January through June: 18 of the 22 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (82%). 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 July, October and December, outside that window. August, September and November are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 2 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 1 |
| October | 1 |
| December | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Choctaw Bluff. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-12 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-16 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-03-26 | 1.00″ | 4 |
| 2022-01-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-24 | 2.75″ | 6 |
| 2021-04-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-09 | 2.50″ | 3 |
| 2020-06-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
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, over the state line included: Washington County (15 hail days), Marengo County (14), Escambia County (15) and Clarke County, Mississippi (20). Clarke County takes more hail than any of them.
Washington County · Marengo County · Escambia County · Clarke County, Mississippi
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Clarke County, Alabama only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.