Montgomery County was hit as recently as 2026-06-11, 50 days ago. Montgomery County is hit in most years, often more than once. 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 2015-04-02 near Independence.
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 2026-06-11, around Cherryvale. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Montgomery 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 52 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 105 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 2011, with 8 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 15 days since 2022.
9 of the 52 days reached 2 inches or more -- 17%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2026-04-26. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 17 of the 52 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 Coffeyville -- 14 of the county's 52 hail days -- then Cherryvale (13), Independence (12), Caney (11) and Elk City (7). Beyond those, NOAA names Tyro, Havana, Sycamore and Sw Caney on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Caney | 10 | 2.75″ |
| Cherryvale | 9 | 3.00″ |
| Coffeyville | 9 | 3.00″ |
| Independence | 7 | 4.00″ |
| Tyro | 4 | 2.50″ |
The season runs April through September: 42 of the 52 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (81%). April is the single busiest month, with 17 of them (33%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in February, March, November and December, outside that window. January and October are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 3 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 17 |
| May | 9 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 7 |
| November | 2 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Cherryvale. 5 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-11 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-28 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-26 | 3.00″ | 4 |
| 2026-04-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-15 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2025-06-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-08-16 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2024-06-25 | 2.75″ | 3 |
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, over the state line included: Labette County (37 hail days), Wilson County (29), Chautauqua County (29) and Nowata County, Oklahoma (15). Montgomery County takes more hail than any of them.
Labette County · Wilson County · Chautauqua County · Nowata County, Oklahoma
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Montgomery County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.