The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-16, 106 days ago. McCracken County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2015-06-26 near Lovelaceville.
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 2026-04-16, around Boaz. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls McCracken 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 20 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 31 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2025, with 2 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
3 of the 20 days reached 2 inches or more -- 15%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2026-04-16. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 7 of the 20 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 Paducah -- 6 of the county's 20 hail days -- then Lone Oak (5), Reidland (3), West Paducah (3) and Heath (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Paducah | 4 | 1.50″ |
| West Paducah | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Reidland | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Lone Oak | 2 | 2.00″ |
| 2 Ne Lovelaceville | 1 | 2.50″ |
The season runs January through June: 16 of the 20 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (80%). May is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (35%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September, November and December, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 2 |
| September | 1 |
| November | 1 |
| December | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Boaz. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-16 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-16 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2025-03-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-08 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2023-05-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-01-11 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2021-12-05 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2020-03-02 | 1.75″ | 2 |
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 2.5 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: Marshall County (18 hail days), Graves County (22), Calloway County (21) and Johnson County, Illinois (20). McCracken County sits in between.
Marshall County · Graves County · Calloway County · Johnson County, Illinois
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, McCracken County, Kentucky only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.