Norton County was hit as recently as 2026-05-30, 62 days ago. Norton 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 2025-07-06 near Calvert.
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 2026-05-30, around Lenora. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Norton 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 127 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 2023, with 8 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 19 days since 2022, against 2.2 a year before that.
9 of the 45 days reached 2 inches or more -- 20%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2025-07-06. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not May. 19 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 Norton -- 28 of the county's 45 hail days -- then Almena (12), Lenora (7), Edmond (6) and Calvert (3). That one town is named on 62% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Clayton, Reager, Norcatur and Densmore on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Norton | 12 | 2.00″ |
| Almena | 7 | 2.75″ |
| Lenora | 6 | 2.75″ |
| 4 W Norton | 4 | 1.50″ |
| 2 S Norton | 3 | 1.50″ |
The season runs May through August: 37 of the 45 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (82%). May is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (24%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. January, February and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 11 |
| June | 11 |
| July | 9 |
| August | 6 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 2 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Lenora. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-30 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2025-07-06 | 3.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-10-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-18 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-25 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-10-03 | 3.00″ | 6 |
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, over the state line included: Phillips County (59 hail days), Decatur County (47), Graham County (44) and Furnas County, Nebraska (69). Norton County sits in between.
Phillips County · Decatur County · Graham County · Furnas County, Nebraska
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Norton County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.