The most recent reported hail day was 2024-05-23 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Wayne 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 2024-05-23 near Humeston.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Iowa. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2024-05-23, around Humeston. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Wayne 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 15 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 21 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2013 alone produced 5 of the 15 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 1 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
2 of the 15 days reached 2 inches or more -- 13%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2024-05-23. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not June. 5 of the 15 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Iowa, see the Iowa hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Humeston -- 5 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Lineville (3), Promise City (2) and Clio (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Humeston | 4 | 2.75″ |
| Lineville | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 6 S Russell | 1 | 2.50″ |
| 1 W Humeston | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 2 N Promise City | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through July: 13 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (87%). June is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (47%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February and April, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 7 |
| July | 2 |
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 2.75 inches near Humeston. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-23 | 2.75″ | 4 |
| 2021-06-18 | 2.50″ | 1 |
| 2019-06-25 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2018-05-14 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2017-06-17 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2015-07-13 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2014-06-03 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2014-02-20 | 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: Lucas County (14 hail days), Decatur County (15), Clarke County (33) and Mercer County, Missouri (14). Wayne County sits in between.
Lucas County · Decatur County · Clarke County · Mercer County, Missouri
Back to the Iowa hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Wayne County, Iowa only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.