The most recent reported hail day was 2023-09-06 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Sevier County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-06-13 near Ben Lomond.
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 2023-09-06, around De Queen. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Sevier 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 20 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 32 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: 2011 alone produced 4 of the 20 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.4 a year before that.
2 of the 20 days reached 2 inches or more -- 10%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2023-06-13. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 5 of the 20 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 De Queen -- 9 of the county's 20 hail days -- then Lockesburg (7), Gillham (5), Horatio (3) and Ben Lomond (2). That one town is named on 45% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| De Queen | 5 | 2.00″ |
| Lockesburg | 5 | 1.25″ |
| Gillham | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Horatio | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 5 NW Ben Lomond | 1 | 2.75″ |
The season runs February through June: 16 of the 20 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (80%). April is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (45%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, July and September, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 9 |
| May | 1 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 1 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near De Queen. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-13 | 2.75″ | 4 |
| 2023-03-11 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2021-05-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-04-21 | 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 2.75 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, over the state line included: Howard County (28 hail days), Little River County (17), Polk County (28) and McCurtain County, Oklahoma (54). Sevier County sits in between.
Howard County · Little River County · Polk County · McCurtain County, Oklahoma
Back to the Arkansas hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Sevier County, Arkansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.