The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-02 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Clay County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2014-10-13 near West Point.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Mississippi. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2025-05-02, around Waverly. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Clay 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 15 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 16 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2010 alone produced 3 of the 15 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.0 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 15 days on record passed it, 7%, the last on 2014-10-13. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in October, not March. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 15 days.
Across the whole of Mississippi, see the Mississippi hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Montpelier -- 6 of the county's 15 hail days -- then West Point (4) and Griffith (2). That one town is named on 40% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Ese West Point | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 1 Wsw Montpelier | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 7 Ene Montpelier | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 4 Se Montpelier | 1 | 1.50″ |
| 1 Nw Mhoon Valley | 1 | 1.25″ |
The season runs March through August: 12 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (80%). March is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (27%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in October, November and December, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 4 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Waverly. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-12-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-03-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-05-16 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2017-03-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-11-29 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2016-03-31 | 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 2 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: Oktibbeha County (18 hail days), Lowndes County (34) and Webster County (14). Clay County sits in between.
Oktibbeha County · Lowndes County · Webster County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Clay County, Mississippi only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.