Clay County was hit as recently as 2026-05-18, 74 days ago. Clay County has recorded hail in nearly every year on the archive. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2012-04-14 near Wakefield.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Kansas. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-05-18, around Morganville. 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 32 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 58 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2016, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 10 days since 2022.
4 of the 32 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2022-05-17. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 13 of the 32 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Kansas, see the Kansas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Wakefield -- 15 of the county's 32 hail days -- then Clay Center (8), Morganville (6), Longford (4) and Green (3). That one town is named on 47% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Clay Center | 4 | 2.00″ |
| Wakefield | 3 | 2.00″ |
| 5 Ne Morganville | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 4 S Wakefield | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 5 N Wakefield | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through July: 26 of the 32 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (81%). May is the single busiest month, with 12 of them (38%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 6 |
| May | 12 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 2 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Morganville. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-18 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2026-05-14 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2026-04-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-18 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-28 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-13 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2023-06-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-11 | 1.75″ | 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 4 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: Riley County (53 hail days), Geary County (38) and Cloud County (52). Every one of them takes more hail than Clay County.
Riley County · Geary County · Cloud County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Clay County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.