The most recent reported hail day was 2025-07-08, 388 days ago. Meade County is hit in most years, often more than once. 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 2017-05-16 near Englewood.
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 2025-07-08, around Fowler. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Meade 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 48 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 87 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 2014, with 6 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 3.8 a year before that.
8 of the 48 days reached 2 inches or more -- 17%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2021-08-10. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 16 of the 48 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 Fowler -- 18 of the county's 48 hail days -- then Meade State Park (17), Meade (13), Missler (5) and Copeland (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Plains City and Englewood on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Fowler | 3 | 2.50″ |
| 4 W Meade State Park | 2 | 2.00″ |
| 11 Se Meade State Park | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 4 W Fowler | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 5 E Meade State Park | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through July: 40 of the 48 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (83%). May is the single busiest month, with 21 of them (44%). 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 | 6 |
| May | 21 |
| June | 10 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 3 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Fowler. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-08-10 | 2.75″ | 1 |
| 2020-09-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-05-23 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2019-06-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-18 | 2.00″ | 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: Clark County (49 hail days), Seward County (38) and Gray County (59). Meade County sits in between.
Clark County · Seward County · Gray County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Meade County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.