Jewell County, Kansas Hail Map & History
Jewell County was hit as recently as 2026-09-12, 2 days ago. Jewell County is hit in most years, often more than once. The largest stone on record here is 4.25 inches and 4.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2013-05-27 near Montrose.
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 2026-09-12, around Randall. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Jewell 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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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 60 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.5 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 118 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2016, with 7 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 10 days since 2022, against 4.2 a year before that.
8 of the 60 days reached 2 inches or more -- 13%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2023-07-28. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 22 of the 60 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Kansas, see the Kansas hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Jewell County
Reports cluster nearest Burr Oak -- 19 of the county's 60 hail days -- then Jewell (13), Esbon (11), Webber (10) and Mankato (8). Beyond those, NOAA names Formoso, Ionia, Randall, Montrose and Lovewell State Par on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Burr Oak | 13 | 2.00″ |
| 6 N Esbon | 7 | 1.25″ |
| Mankato | 6 | 4.00″ |
| Jewell | 6 | 2.75″ |
| Formoso | 6 | 1.75″ |
When it hails in Jewell County
The season runs April through July: 48 of the 60 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (80%). May is the single busiest month, with 20 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, August, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 12 |
| May | 20 |
| June | 12 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 5 |
| September | 4 |
| October | 2 |
Recent Jewell County hail days
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Randall. 5 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-12 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2026-07-03 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2026-06-13 | 1.75″ | 7 |
| 2026-05-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-21 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-28 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-09 | 2.50″ | 4 |
How to read the Jewell County map
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 4.25 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own, over the state line included: Republic County (33 hail days), Mitchell County (45), Smith County (43), Nuckolls County, Nebraska (38) and Webster County, Nebraska (41). Jewell County takes more hail than any of them.
Republic County · Mitchell County · Smith County · Nuckolls County, Nebraska · Webster County, Nebraska
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Jewell County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.