The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-08 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Lawrence County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2014-04-29 near Ulysses.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Kentucky. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2025-05-08, around Blaine. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lawrence 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 19 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.1 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 32 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2015, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
3 of the 19 days reached 2 inches or more -- 16%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2016-05-01. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not June. 8 of the 19 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Kentucky, see the Kentucky hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Blaine -- 7 of the county's 19 hail days -- then Ulysses (5), Louisa (4), Gallup (3) and Martha (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Yatesville Lake S on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Blaine | 4 | 1.25″ |
| Louisa | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Ese Gallup | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Nne Yatesville Lake S | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Ulysses | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 17 of the 19 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (89%). June is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (37%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in February and October, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 7 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Blaine. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-17 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-03-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-05-01 | 2.75″ | 1 |
| 2015-06-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2015-06-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2015-04-08 | 1.25″ | 5 |
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: Johnson County (13 hail days), Morgan County (13) and Carter County (14). Lawrence County takes more hail than any of them.
Johnson County · Morgan County · Carter County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Lawrence County, Kentucky only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.