The most recent reported hail day was 2024-02-04 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Clay 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 2023-04-26 near Kingsley.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Florida. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2024-02-04, around Kingsley. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Clay 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 17 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.0 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 21 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 17 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Clay County: all 17 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 17 days.
Across the whole of Florida, see the Florida hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Middleburg -- 6 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Lakeside (4), Green Cove Spring (2), Kingsley (2) and Doctors Inlet (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Nnw Green Cove Spring | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Ese Kingsley | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Nnw Green Cove Spring | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 5 W Fruit Cove | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 1 Sse Middleburg | 1 | 1.00″ |
The season runs January through June: 14 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (82%). May is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July, August and September, outside that window. October, November and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Kingsley. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-26 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2019-07-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-06-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-06-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2013-09-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2013-03-23 | 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: Duval County (30 hail days), St. Johns County (17) and Alachua County (16). Clay County sits in between.
Duval County · St. Johns County · Alachua County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Clay County, Florida only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.