The most recent reported hail day was 2025-04-02 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Lonoke County is hit in most years, often more than once. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2021-03-27 near South Bend.
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 2025-04-02, around Hidden Oaks. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lonoke 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 39 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.3 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 70 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 8 of the 39 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 11 days since 2022.
7 of the 39 days reached 2 inches or more -- 18%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2025-04-02. They land in the same month as everything else, April.
Across the whole of Arkansas, see the Arkansas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Cabot -- 15 of the county's 39 hail days -- then Ward (6), Austin (6), Lonoke (5) and England (4). Beyond those, NOAA names South Bend, Humnoke, Furlow and Blakemore on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Cabot | 11 | 2.00″ |
| Austin | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Lonoke | 4 | 1.00″ |
| Ward | 3 | 2.00″ |
| England | 3 | 1.50″ |
Lonoke County has no tight season -- it takes 7 months (February through August) to account for 85% of the 39 days on record. April is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (28%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, October and December, outside that window. September and November are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 2 |
| March | 7 |
| April | 11 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 2 |
| October | 3 |
| December | 2 |
That day put 5 reports on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Hidden Oaks. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-02 | 2.00″ | 5 |
| 2025-03-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-08-18 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2024-05-07 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-13 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2023-04-27 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-04-15 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2022-10-15 | 2.00″ | 5 |
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 3 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: Pulaski County (66 hail days), Prairie County (18) and Faulkner County (35). Lonoke County sits in between.
Pulaski County · Prairie County · Faulkner 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, Lonoke County, Arkansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.