The most recent reported hail day was 2024-02-11 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Vernon Parish is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2018-04-03 near Leesville.
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 2024-02-11, around Leesville. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Vernon 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 22 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.3 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 26 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2020 alone produced 5 of the 22 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 1.7 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Vernon Parish: all 22 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 22 days.
Across the whole of Louisiana, see the Louisiana hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Leesville -- 8 of the parish's 22 hail days -- then Hornbeck (3), Fort Polk (2) and Rosepine (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Leesville | 6 | 1.75″ |
| Hornbeck | 3 | 1.25″ |
| Rosepine | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Simpson | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 4 Nne De Ridder | 1 | 1.50″ |
The season runs January through May: 19 of the 22 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (86%). April is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (32%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in June and August, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| February | 2 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 1 |
| August | 2 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Leesville. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-11 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-06-10 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2020-08-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-05-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-05-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-02-05 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2019-05-19 | 1.50″ | 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 1.75 inches, which is the red 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: Beauregard Parish (20 hail days), Sabine Parish (21), Allen Parish (17) and Newton County, Texas (13). Vernon Parish takes more hail than any of them.
Beauregard Parish · Sabine Parish · Allen Parish · Newton County, Texas
Back to the Louisiana hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Vernon Parish, Louisiana only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.