The most recent reported hail day was 2022-10-15 -- 3 years ago, with nothing reported since. Perry County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2022-04-11 near Houston.
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 2022-10-15, around Fourche Junction. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Perry 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 19 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.1 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 24 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2010 alone produced 4 of the 19 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.3 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Perry County: all 19 hail days on record topped out below that. 7 of the 19 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 Perryville -- 8 of the county's 19 hail days -- then Williams Junction (2), Nimrod (2) and Pleasant Valley (2). That one town is named on 42% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Perryville | 5 | 1.75″ |
| 1 W Perryville | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Williams Junction | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Sw Wye | 1 | 1.75″ |
| Hollis | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 17 of the 19 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (89%). March is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (32%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in February and October, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 6 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 3 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Fourche Junction. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-10-15 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-04-11 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2020-03-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-03-10 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2017-03-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-02-28 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2016-03-31 | 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 1.75 inches, which is the red band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Conway County (31 hail days), Faulkner County (35) and Saline County (36). Every one of them takes more hail than Perry County.
Conway County · Faulkner County · Saline County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Perry County, Arkansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.