The most recent reported hail day was 2024-05-27 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Russell 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 2013-03-18 near Phenix City.
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 2024-05-27, around Russell Co Sports C. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Russell 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 28 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 2 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 3 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 13 days on record passed it, 8%, the last on 2013-03-18. They land in the same month as everything else, March. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 7 of 13 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Alabama, see the Alabama hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Phenix City -- 6 of the county's 13 hail days -- then Crawford (3), Parkmanville (3), Ladonia (2) and Russell Co Sports (2). That one town is named on 46% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Twin Springs and Fort Mitchell on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Phenix City | 4 | 1.50″ |
| 4 Wnw Twin Springs | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Ladonia | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Nnw Phenix City | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 4 S Columbus | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs March through June: 11 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (85%). March is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (31%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in July, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 4 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Russell Co Sports C. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-26 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2022-06-15 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2018-07-21 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2017-04-05 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2017-04-04 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2016-04-06 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2013-03-18 | 2.00″ | 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: Lee County (20 hail days), Tallapoosa County (16), Elmore County (20) and Troup County, Georgia (19). Every one of them takes more hail than Russell County.
Lee County · Tallapoosa County · Elmore County · Troup County, Georgia
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Russell County, Alabama only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.