The most recent reported hail day was 2024-07-27 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Sedgwick County is hit in most years, often more than once. 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 2020-06-26 near Sedgwick.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Colorado. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2024-07-27, around Marks Butte. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Sedgwick 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 38 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 74 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 6 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 6 days since 2022, against 2.7 a year before that.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 11 of the 38 days reached 2 inches or more, 29% of them, the last on 2023-06-23. They land in the same month as everything else, June. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 20 of 38 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Colorado, see the Colorado hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Julesburg -- 18 of the county's 38 hail days -- then Sedgwick (14), Ovid (11), Sixteen-Mile Corn (3) and Marks Butte (3). That one town is named on 47% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Nne Julesburg and Sixteen-Mile Corner on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Julesburg | 6 | 2.50″ |
| Ovid | 5 | 2.00″ |
| 12 Se Julesburg | 3 | 2.50″ |
| 1 SSW Ovid | 3 | 1.50″ |
| 9 Se Julesburg | 3 | 1.50″ |
The season runs May through August: 35 of the 38 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (92%). June is the single busiest month, with 14 of them (37%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in April and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 1 |
| May | 9 |
| June | 14 |
| July | 6 |
| August | 6 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Marks Butte. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-03 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2024-06-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-23 | 2.50″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-07 | 2.50″ | 3 |
| 2020-07-16 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2020-06-26 | 2.75″ | 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: Phillips County (42 hail days), Logan County (107), Yuma County (123), Deuel County, Nebraska (43) and Perkins County, Nebraska (59). Every one of them takes more hail than Sedgwick County.
Phillips County · Logan County · Yuma County · Deuel County, Nebraska · Perkins County, Nebraska
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Sedgwick County, Colorado only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.