The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-25, 97 days ago. Howard County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.25 inches and 2.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-06-13 near Dierks.
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 2026-04-25, around Center Point. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Howard 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 28 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 55 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 6 of the 28 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 5 days since 2022, against 1.9 a year before that.
3 of the 28 days reached 2 inches or more -- 11%, or about one hail day in 9, the last on 2023-06-13. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in February, not April. 10 of the 28 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 Nashville -- 13 of the county's 28 hail days -- then Dierks (11), Tollette (4), Center Point (4) and Mineral Springs (2). That one town is named on 46% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Nashville | 9 | 2.00″ |
| Dierks | 2 | 2.25″ |
| Center Point | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 2 S Dierks | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 3 Sw Nashville | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs January through June: 23 of the 28 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (82%). April is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July, September, October and November, outside that window. August and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| February | 3 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 1 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Center Point. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-25 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-15 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-09-23 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2023-06-13 | 2.25″ | 4 |
| 2023-03-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-05-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-03-24 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-28 | 1.50″ | 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 2.25 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: Sevier County (20 hail days), Hempstead County (23) and Pike County (15). Howard County takes more hail than any of them.
Sevier County · Hempstead County · Pike County
Back to the Arkansas hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Howard County, Arkansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.