The most recent reported hail day was 2025-03-30 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Craighead County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2022-04-15 near Lake City.
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 2025-03-30, around Egypt. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Craighead 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 42 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.5 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 73 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2017, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 10 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 42 days on record passed it, 5%, the last on 2022-04-15. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 9 of the 42 days.
Across the whole of Arkansas, see the Arkansas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Jonesboro -- 20 of the county's 42 hail days -- then Bay (7), Bono (5), Lake City (4) and Brookland (4). That one town is named on 48% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Cash, Monette, Ne Bono, Paragould, Egypt and Trumann on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Jonesboro | 11 | 1.75″ |
| Bay | 6 | 2.50″ |
| Lake City | 4 | 4.00″ |
| Bono | 4 | 1.00″ |
| Cash | 3 | 1.50″ |
The season runs March through June: 36 of the 42 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (86%). May is the single busiest month, with 15 of them (36%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, February, August and December, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 7 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 15 |
| June | 6 |
| August | 1 |
| December | 2 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Egypt. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-30 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-03-14 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-22 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2024-03-14 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2024-03-04 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-01-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-08 | 1.00″ | 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 4 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: Poinsett County (25 hail days), Greene County (26) and Mississippi County (23). Craighead County takes more hail than any of them.
Poinsett County · Greene County · Mississippi County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Craighead County, Arkansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.