Nobles County was hit as recently as 2026-05-17, 75 days ago. Nobles County is hit in most years. 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 2023-07-13 near Ellsworth.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Minnesota. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-05-17, around Lismore. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Nobles 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 33 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 54 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 2018, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 10 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 33 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2023-07-13. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in July, not May. 13 of the 33 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Minnesota, see the Minnesota hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Worthington -- 10 of the county's 33 hail days -- then Brewster (6), Rushmore (6), Ellsworth (4) and Bigelow (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Adrian, Lismore, Round Lake, Wilmont and Fulda on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 5 SW Worthington | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Brewster | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Lismore | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Rushmore | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Worthington | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through August: 30 of the 33 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (91%). May is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (24%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 4 |
| May | 8 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 7 |
| August | 6 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 2 |
That day put 5 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Lismore. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-17 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2026-04-13 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2025-08-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-28 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-08-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-20 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-13 | 2.75″ | 3 |
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 counties with a page of their own, over the state line included: Jackson County (26 hail days), Rock County (25), Murray County (25) and Osceola County, Iowa (19). Nobles County takes more hail than any of them.
Jackson County · Rock County · Murray County · Osceola County, Iowa
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Nobles County, Minnesota only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.