The most recent reported hail day was 2026-02-26, 155 days ago. Limestone 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 2011-03-29 near Ardmore.
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 2026-02-26, around Athens. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Limestone 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 30 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 83 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2012, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
7 of the 30 days reached 2 inches or more -- 23%, or about one hail day in 4, the last on 2025-05-20. They land in the same month as everything else, March. 11 of the 30 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 Athens -- 16 of the county's 30 hail days -- then Ardmore (6), Elkmont (4), Ripley (4) and Rogersville (3). That one town is named on 53% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Madison, Harvest, Capshaw and Cartwright on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Athens | 4 | 2.75″ |
| Ardmore | 2 | 3.00″ |
| Elkmont | 2 | 2.75″ |
| Ripley | 2 | 2.50″ |
| 5 NNW Madison | 2 | 2.00″ |
The season runs January through June: 24 of the 30 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (80%). March is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (27%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. September are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 2 |
| March | 8 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| October | 2 |
| November | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 5 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Athens. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-26 | 1.25″ | 5 |
| 2025-05-20 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2025-04-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-08 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-25 | 1.50″ | 12 |
| 2022-08-06 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2022-04-15 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-24 | 2.00″ | 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 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: Madison County (49 hail days), Morgan County (28) and Lawrence County (25). Limestone County sits in between.
Madison County · Morgan County · Lawrence County
Back to the Alabama hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Limestone County, Alabama only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.