The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-26, 96 days ago. Morris 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 2011-04-08 near Wilsey.
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 2026-04-26, around White City. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Morris 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 43 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.5 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 77 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2011, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 12 days since 2022.
6 of the 43 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2018-05-14. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not April. 14 of the 43 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 Council Grove -- 16 of the county's 43 hail days -- then White City (9), Wilsey (7), Burdick (7) and Dunlap (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Herington, Latimer, Parkerville and Dwight on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| White City | 6 | 1.75″ |
| 4 E Wilsey | 5 | 3.00″ |
| Burdick | 4 | 1.25″ |
| Council Grove | 3 | 2.00″ |
| 2 Ssw Burdick | 2 | 1.50″ |
The season runs March through June: 36 of the 43 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (84%). April is the single busiest month, with 13 of them (30%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, 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 |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 13 |
| May | 13 |
| June | 6 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near White City. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-09-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-01 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-25 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2024-04-30 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2024-04-25 | 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: Chase County (29 hail days), Geary County (38) and Lyon County (55). Morris County sits in between.
Chase County · Geary County · Lyon County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Morris County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.