Jones County was hit as recently as 2026-06-19, 42 days ago. Jones County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2020-03-03 near Glade.
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 2026-06-19, around Calhoun. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Jones 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. Those days carry 61 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 5 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 2020-08-02. They land in the same month as everything else, March. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 7 of the 33 days.
Across the whole of Mississippi, see the Mississippi hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Laurel -- 9 of the county's 33 hail days -- then Ellisville (7), Soso (5), Sandersville (5) and Moselle (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Mill Creek, Glade, Calhoun, Myrick, Sharon and Ovett on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Moselle | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Calhoun | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Sandersville | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 2 Sse Glade | 2 | 2.50″ |
| 2 N Laurel | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through August: 27 of the 33 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (82%). March is the single busiest month, with 9 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 January, February, September and December, outside that window. October and November are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 9 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 1 |
| December | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Calhoun. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-02-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-12-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-18 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2023-04-02 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2023-03-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-01-03 | 1.00″ | 4 |
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 2.5 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: Jasper County (16 hail days), Forrest County (27) and Smith County (19). Jones County takes more hail than any of them.
Jasper County · Forrest County · Smith County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Jones County, Mississippi only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.