The most recent reported hail day was 2025-07-05, 391 days ago. Seward 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 2010-06-18 near Liberal.
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 2025-07-05, around Liberal. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Seward 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 38 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 83 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 9 days since 2022.
7 of the 38 days reached 2 inches or more -- 18%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2023-07-06. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 17 of the 38 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 Liberal -- 20 of the county's 38 hail days -- then Kismet (12), Hayne (12), Woods (5) and Satanta (3). That one town is named on 53% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Liberal | 11 | 2.75″ |
| Kismet | 5 | 2.00″ |
| 10 Wnw Kismet | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 6 Ene Woods | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Nw Liberal | 2 | 1.25″ |
The season runs May through September: 34 of the 38 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (89%). May is the single busiest month, with 13 of them (34%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in February, April and November, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 13 |
| June | 13 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 4 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Liberal. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-18 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2023-09-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-06 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-17 | 2.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-22 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-02-26 | 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: Stevens County (44 hail days), Haskell County (40) and Meade County (48). Every one of them takes more hail than Seward County.
Stevens County · Haskell County · Meade County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Seward County, Kansas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.