The most recent reported hail day was 2026-03-15, 138 days ago. Lee County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2024-06-09 near Saltillo.
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 2026-03-15, around Sherman. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lee 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 40 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 73 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2025, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 14 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 40 days on record passed it, 2%, the last on 2024-06-09. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not March. 12 of the 40 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Mississippi, see the Mississippi hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Tupelo -- 16 of the county's 40 hail days -- then Saltillo (8), Baldwyn (6), Shannon (6) and Guntown (5). That one town is named on 40% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Verona, Nettleton, Furrs, Pratts Friendship, Sherman and Mantachie on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Tupelo | 9 | 1.75″ |
| Baldwyn | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Guntown | 4 | 1.50″ |
| Saltillo | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Verona | 2 | 1.50″ |
The season runs January through June: 32 of the 40 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (80%). March is the single busiest month, with 16 of them (40%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in October, November and December, outside that window. July, August and September are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 16 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 3 |
| October | 4 |
| November | 3 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Sherman. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-15 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-25 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-08 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-15 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-09 | 2.50″ | 8 |
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: Pontotoc County (20 hail days), Itawamba County (26) and Union County (23). Lee County takes more hail than any of them.
Pontotoc County · Itawamba County · Union County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Lee County, Mississippi only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.