The most recent reported hail day was 2025-03-23 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Montgomery 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 2011-04-20 near Duck Hill.
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 2025-03-23, around Eskridge. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Montgomery 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 21 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 28 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2012, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
2 of the 21 days reached 2 inches or more -- 10%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2019-04-08. 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 21 days.
Across the whole of Mississippi, see the Mississippi hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Duck Hill -- 6 of the county's 21 hail days -- then Winona (5), Kilmichael (4), Poplar Creek (3) and Sweatman (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Eskridge and Elliott on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Duck Hill | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Kilmichael | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 3 S Poplar Creek | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 4 E Duck Hill | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 2 Se Duck Hill | 1 | 2.50″ |
The season runs March through June: 18 of the 21 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (86%). March is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (33%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in February, August and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 7 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 1 |
| June | 3 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Eskridge. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-23 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-03-14 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-05 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-04 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2022-04-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-03-22 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2020-02-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-04-08 | 2.00″ | 2 |
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: Carroll County (19 hail days), Grenada County (19) and Webster County (14). Montgomery County takes more hail than any of them.
Carroll County · Grenada County · Webster County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Montgomery County, Mississippi only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.