The most recent reported hail day was 2024-03-13 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Doniphan 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 2011-05-21 near Highland.
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 2024-03-13, around Wathena. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Doniphan 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. 9 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2019 alone produced 3 of the 15 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.0 a year before that.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 4 of the 15 days reached 2 inches or more, 27% of them, the last on 2024-03-13. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not May. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 8 of 15 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Kansas, see the Kansas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Highland -- 6 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Troy (5), Wathena (2), White Cloud (2) and Doniphan (2). That one town is named on 40% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Troy | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Highland | 4 | 2.75″ |
| 1 E Highland | 2 | 2.50″ |
| Wathena | 2 | 2.50″ |
| 2 Nw White Cloud | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs March through June: 12 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (80%). May is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (40%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August and October, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 3 |
| August | 2 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 2.5 inches near Wathena. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-13 | 2.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-24 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-04 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2019-08-15 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2019-05-28 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-08-30 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2018-05-28 | 1.25″ | 2 |
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: Atchison County (24 hail days), Brown County (25), Jackson County (40), Buchanan County, Missouri (23) and Holt County, Missouri (24). Every one of them takes more hail than Doniphan County.
Atchison County · Brown County · Jackson County · Buchanan County, Missouri · Holt County, Missouri
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Doniphan County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.