Ellis County was hit as recently as 2026-06-08, 53 days ago. Ellis County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2021-05-26 near Hays.
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 2026-06-08, around Catherine. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Ellis 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 73 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 4.3 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 183 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2017, with 7 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 11 days since 2022, against 5.2 a year before that.
12 of the 73 days reached 2 inches or more -- 16%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2024-06-18. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 30 of the 73 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 Hays -- 29 of the county's 73 hail days -- then Ellis (21), Yocemento (11), Antonino (11) and Catherine (11). That one town is named on 40% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Schoenchen, Munjor, Victoria, Emmeram, Pfeifer, Cedar Bluff and Toulon on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Hays | 10 | 2.75″ |
| Ellis | 8 | 2.50″ |
| Schoenchen | 5 | 1.75″ |
| 1 W Hays | 4 | 2.50″ |
| 4 Sw Antonino | 4 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through August: 64 of the 73 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (88%). May is the single busiest month, with 36 of them (49%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in March, April and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 36 |
| June | 15 |
| July | 6 |
| August | 7 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Catherine. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-08 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2026-05-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-18 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-18 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2024-06-04 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2024-06-01 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-19 | 3.00″ | 12 |
| 2024-03-13 | 2.00″ | 7 |
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: Rush County (63 hail days), Trego County (72) and Rooks County (55). Ellis County takes more hail than any of them.
Rush County · Trego County · Rooks County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Ellis County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.