The most recent reported hail day was 2024-06-25 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. St. Joseph County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-07-20 near Mishawaka.
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 2024-06-25, around Gulivoire Park. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls St. Joseph 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. Those days carry 40 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2014 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.
2 of the 19 days reached 2 inches or more -- 11%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2023-07-20. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not June. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 19 days.
Across the whole of Indiana, see the Indiana hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest South Bend -- 5 of the county's 19 hail days -- then New Carlisle (4), Mishawaka (3), Lakeville (2) and North Liberty (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Osceola and Gulivoire Park on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| South Bend | 5 | 1.25″ |
| New Carlisle | 3 | 1.25″ |
| Lakeville | 2 | 1.75″ |
| North Liberty | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 2 E South Bend | 2 | 1.50″ |
The season runs February through July: 16 of the 19 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (84%). June is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (42%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 1 |
| June | 8 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Gulivoire Park. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-20 | 2.50″ | 9 |
| 2023-03-31 | 2.00″ | 5 |
| 2021-08-06 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2019-06-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-06-01 | 1.25″ | 4 |
| 2019-03-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-02-28 | 1.25″ | 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 2.5 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: Elkhart County (17 hail days), La Porte County (20), Kosciusko County (14), Berrien County, Michigan (21) and Cass County, Michigan (14). St. Joseph County sits in between.
Elkhart County · La Porte County · Kosciusko County · Berrien County, Michigan · Cass County, Michigan
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, St. Joseph County, Indiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.