The most recent reported hail day was 2024-03-25 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. East Carroll Parish is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2013-03-18 near Transylvania.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Louisiana. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2024-03-25, around Transylvania. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls East Carroll Parish 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 13 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 18 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2018, with 2 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 0.9 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 13 days on record passed it, 8%, the last on 2013-03-18. They land in the same month as everything else, March. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 13 days.
Across the whole of Louisiana, see the Louisiana hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Transylvania -- 6 of the parish's 13 hail days -- then Lake Providence (6) and Oak Grove (2). That one town is named on 46% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Transylvania | 5 | 2.75″ |
| Lake Providence | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 1 Sse Lake Providence | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 1 S Lake Providence | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 4 E Oak Grove | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through April: 11 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 2 months (85%). March is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (54%). Hail has also been reported in February and November, outside that window. Reports span 4 of the 12 calendar months; the other 8 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 7 |
| April | 4 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Transylvania. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-03-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-03-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-04-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-03-28 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2017-11-03 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2016-03-03 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2015-04-19 | 1.75″ | 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 2.75 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest parishes and counties with a page of their own, over the state line included: West Carroll Parish (24 hail days), Morehouse Parish (28), Richland Parish (24) and Warren County, Mississippi (18). Every one of them takes more hail than East Carroll Parish.
West Carroll Parish · Morehouse Parish · Richland Parish · Warren County, Mississippi
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, East Carroll Parish, Louisiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.