The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-29, 93 days ago. Columbia County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2023-04-15 near Magnolia.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Arkansas. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-04-29, around Emerson. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Columbia 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 14 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 21 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2012 alone produced 3 of the 14 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 3 days since 2022.
2 of the 14 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2023-04-15. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in January, not April. 4 of the 14 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Arkansas, see the Arkansas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Magnolia -- 7 of the county's 14 hail days -- then Emerson (3), Taylor (3), Buckner (2) and Waldo (2). That one town is named on 50% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Magnolia | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Waldo | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 6 Sw Magnolia | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 8 Ne Springhill | 1 | 2.50″ |
| 1 W Emerson | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs January through May: 12 of the 14 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (86%). April is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (43%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August and December, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Emerson. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-15 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-15 | 2.75″ | 4 |
| 2020-05-21 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-12-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-04-29 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2017-01-21 | 2.50″ | 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 2.75 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties and parishes with a page of their own, over the state line included: Lafayette County (13 hail days), Nevada County (18), Ouachita County (17), Webster Parish, Louisiana (27) and Claiborne Parish, Louisiana (14). Columbia County sits in between.
Lafayette County · Nevada County · Ouachita County · Webster Parish, Louisiana · Claiborne Parish, Louisiana
Back to the Arkansas hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Columbia County, Arkansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.