Gray County was hit as recently as 2026-06-20, 41 days ago. Gray County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2015-06-25 near Cimarron.
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 2026-06-20, around Howell. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Gray 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 59 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.5 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 113 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2019, with 6 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 9 days since 2022, against 4.2 a year before that.
10 of the 59 days reached 2 inches or more -- 17%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2018-05-18. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not May. 21 of the 59 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 Montezuma -- 18 of the county's 59 hail days -- then Ingalls (15), Cimarron (14), Copeland (11) and Charleston (8). Beyond those, NOAA names Ensign, The Haggard Elev, The Haggard Eleva, Howell, Pierceville and Kalvesta on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Ingalls | 5 | 2.50″ |
| Copeland | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Cimarron | 4 | 1.50″ |
| 6 N Charleston | 3 | 2.75″ |
| Montezuma | 3 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through July: 48 of the 59 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (81%). May is the single busiest month, with 18 of them (31%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. January, February and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 18 |
| June | 18 |
| July | 7 |
| August | 4 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 3 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Howell. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-20 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2026-06-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-18 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-07-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-18 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-20 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-17 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2022-05-14 | 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 3 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: Haskell County (40 hail days), Finney County (54) and Ford County (98). Gray County sits in between.
Haskell County · Finney County · Ford County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Gray County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.