The most recent reported hail day was 2024-05-25 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Dale County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2017-04-04 near Newton.
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 2024-05-25, around Hooper Stage Field. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Dale 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 13 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 24 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 2024, with 2 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 0.9 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Dale County: all 13 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 2 of the 13 days.
Across the whole of Alabama, see the Alabama hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Ozark -- 5 of the county's 13 hail days -- then Daleville (3) and Midland City (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Ozark | 4 | 1.00″ |
| Daleville | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Newton | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 4 Ne Fort Rucker | 1 | 1.50″ |
| 2 S Daleville | 1 | 1.25″ |
The season runs January through May: 11 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (85%). March is the single busiest month, with 3 of them (23%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 3 |
| July | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Hooper Stage Field. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-24 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2020-03-04 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2018-07-22 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2017-04-04 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2017-01-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-03-17 | 1.75″ | 2 |
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 1.75 inches, which is the red 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: Covington County (13 hail days), Montgomery County (15), Russell County (13), Walton County, Florida (15) and Bay County, Florida (18). Dale County sits in between.
Covington County · Montgomery County · Russell County · Walton County, Florida · Bay County, Florida
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Dale County, Alabama only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.