The most recent reported hail day was 2024-05-07 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Shelby County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-05-22 near Morristown.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Indiana. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2024-05-07, around Marietta. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Shelby 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 13 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 15 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 2 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 3 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 13 days on record passed it, 8%, the last on 2011-05-22. They land in the same month as everything else, May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 13 days.
Across the whole of Indiana, see the Indiana hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Shelbyville -- 4 of the county's 13 hail days -- then Morristown (2), Flat Rock (2) and Marietta (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Shelbyville | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Morristown | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Se Morristown | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 1 Ssw Flat Rock | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 4 Sw New Palestine | 1 | 1.50″ |
The season runs March through July: 12 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (92%). May is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (31%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Marietta. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-03-28 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2015-06-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-05-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-02-20 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2013-04-17 | 1.50″ | 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 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: Johnson County (18 hail days), Rush County (15) and Hancock County (19). Every one of them takes more hail than Shelby County.
Johnson County · Rush County · Hancock County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Shelby County, Indiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.