Mitchell County was hit as recently as 2026-05-17, 75 days ago. Mitchell County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2021-08-10 near Asherville.
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 2026-05-17, around Hunter. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Mitchell 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 45 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 107 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 2015, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 9 days since 2022.
6 of the 45 days reached 2 inches or more -- 13%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2025-05-18. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 17 of the 45 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 Beloit -- 20 of the county's 45 hail days -- then Hunter (14), Cawker City (8), Asherville (7) and Tipton (7). That one town is named on 44% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Glen Elder, Victor, Simpson and Scottsville on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Beloit | 8 | 1.75″ |
| Cawker City | 6 | 2.00″ |
| Tipton | 5 | 1.50″ |
| Hunter | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Glen Elder | 3 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through July: 36 of the 45 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (80%). May is the single busiest month, with 17 of them (38%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, August and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 17 |
| June | 8 |
| July | 6 |
| August | 5 |
| October | 3 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Hunter. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-17 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-09 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-08-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-18 | 2.00″ | 5 |
| 2024-07-31 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-25 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2023-07-28 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-05-09 | 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 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: Lincoln County (54 hail days), Jewell County (58) and Osborne County (57). Every one of them takes more hail than Mitchell County.
Lincoln County · Jewell County · Osborne County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Mitchell County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.