Kemper County was hit as recently as 2026-05-06, 86 days ago. Kemper County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2026-05-06 near Cleveland.
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 2026-05-06, around Cleveland. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Kemper 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 17 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.0 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 26 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2013, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
2 of the 17 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2026-05-06. 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 4 of the 17 days.
Across the whole of Mississippi, see the Mississippi hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Preston -- 5 of the county's 17 hail days -- then De Kalb (4), Scooba (3), Cleveland (2) and Damascus (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Preston | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Damascus | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 1 ESE Cleveland | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 7 Ne Scooba | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 1 Se De Kalb | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs March through May: 14 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (82%). March is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (41%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in January, September and December, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| March | 7 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 3 |
| September | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 2.75 inches near Cleveland. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-06 | 2.75″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-29 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-01-12 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2019-03-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-03-14 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2017-03-27 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2017-03-07 | 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 2.75 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: Noxubee County (18 hail days), Neshoba County (30), Lauderdale County (29) and Sumter County, Alabama (19). Every one of them takes more hail than Kemper County.
Noxubee County · Neshoba County · Lauderdale County · Sumter County, Alabama
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Kemper County, Mississippi only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.