The most recent reported hail day was 2024-05-09 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Holmes County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 4.25 inches and 4.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2014-04-24 near West.
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 2024-05-09, around Pickens. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Holmes 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 26 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.5 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 37 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 2012, with 5 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 4 days since 2022, against 1.8 a year before that.
3 of the 26 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 9, the last on 2022-11-29. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not March. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 6 of the 26 days.
Across the whole of Mississippi, see the Mississippi hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Lexington -- 7 of the county's 26 hail days -- then Tchula (5), West (3), Ebenezer (3) and Durant (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Pickens, Goodman, Black Hawk and Cruger on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| West | 3 | 4.25″ |
| Tchula | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Durant | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Lexington | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Goodman | 2 | 1.25″ |
The season runs March through June: 21 of the 26 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (81%). March is the single busiest month, with 7 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 August, 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 |
|---|---|
| March | 7 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
| November | 2 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Pickens. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-09 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-12-09 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2022-11-29 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2022-04-17 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2020-05-27 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2019-04-07 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2019-04-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-03-10 | 1.00″ | 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 4.25 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: Carroll County (19 hail days), Yazoo County (25) and Attala County (25). Holmes County takes more hail than any of them.
Carroll County · Yazoo County · Attala County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Holmes County, Mississippi only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.