The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-28, 94 days ago. Lamar County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2020-03-28 near Hightogy.
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 2026-04-28, around Vernon. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lamar 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 23 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 43 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 5 of the 23 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 4 days since 2022, against 1.6 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 23 days on record passed it, 9%, the last on 2024-05-09. They land in the same month as everything else, March. 6 of the 23 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 Vernon -- 6 of the county's 23 hail days -- then Hightogy (4), Millport (4), Kennedy (3) and Beaverton (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Detroit and Sulligent on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Vernon | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Millport | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Kennedy | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 2 Nw Hightogy | 1 | 3.00″ |
| 3 NNW Kennedy | 1 | 2.75″ |
The season runs March through May: 21 of the 23 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (91%). March is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (48%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in June and July, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 11 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Vernon. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-28 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-04-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-09 | 2.75″ | 3 |
| 2022-06-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-03-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-03-17 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2020-03-28 | 3.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-03-14 | 1.50″ | 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 3 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: Fayette County (20 hail days), Pickens County (15), Marion County (27), Lowndes County, Mississippi (34) and Monroe County, Mississippi (29). Lamar County sits in between.
Fayette County · Pickens County · Marion County · Lowndes County, Mississippi · Monroe County, Mississippi
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Lamar County, Alabama only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.