The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-23, 99 days ago. Nemaha County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2013-05-28 near Corning.
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 2026-04-23, around Baileyville. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Nemaha 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 35 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 63 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2018, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 10 days since 2022.
5 of the 35 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2024-04-30. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not April. 9 of the 35 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 Baileyville -- 9 of the county's 35 hail days -- then Corning (7), Sabetha (6), Centralia (5) and Bern (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Seneca, Woodlawn, Wetmore and Oneida on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Baileyville | 5 | 1.50″ |
| Corning | 4 | 1.25″ |
| Sabetha | 3 | 2.00″ |
| 1 S Baileyville | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 5 Nw Sabetha | 2 | 2.00″ |
The season runs March through July: 28 of the 35 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (80%). April is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in 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 | 2 |
| April | 10 |
| May | 8 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 4 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Baileyville. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-01 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-06 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-30 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-26 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-09-16 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-16 | 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 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: Brown County (25 hail days), Marshall County (45), Jackson County (40), Pawnee County, Nebraska (23) and Richardson County, Nebraska (31). Nemaha County sits in between.
Brown County · Marshall County · Jackson County · Pawnee County, Nebraska · Richardson County, Nebraska
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Nemaha County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.