The most recent reported hail day was 2025-03-30 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Lawrence County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 4.5 inches, a softball and 4.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2015-04-09 near Portia.
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 Strawberry. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lawrence 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 29 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.7 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 43 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 6 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.
4 of the 29 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2025-03-30. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 8 of the 29 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 Strawberry -- 6 of the county's 29 hail days -- then Imboden (6), Hoxie (5), Black Rock (4) and Smithville (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Ravenden, Lynn and Sedgwick on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Imboden | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Strawberry | 4 | 4.00″ |
| Black Rock | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Smithville | 3 | 4.50″ |
| Ravenden | 3 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through August: 25 of the 29 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (86%). April is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (28%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, February, October and December, outside that window. July, September and November are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 7 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 2 |
| August | 3 |
| October | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 4 inches near Strawberry. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-30 | 4.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-03-14 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-09 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-10-12 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-04-15 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2020-04-20 | 1.25″ | 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 4.5 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: Randolph County (17 hail days), Sharp County (24) and Jackson County (18). Lawrence County takes more hail than any of them.
Randolph County · Sharp County · Jackson 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, Lawrence County, Arkansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.