The most recent reported hail day was 2026-03-15, 138 days ago. Panola County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-04-27 near Batesville.
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 Endville. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Panola 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 24 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 37 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 2023, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 9 days since 2022.
3 of the 24 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2023-12-09. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not March. 10 of the 24 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 Batesville -- 11 of the county's 24 hail days -- then Pope (5), Como (3), Endville (3) and Sardis (2). That one town is named on 46% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Crenshaw, Courtland and Curtis Station on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Batesville | 4 | 4.00″ |
| Como | 3 | 2.75″ |
| 1 SW Batesville | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Pope | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Sardis | 2 | 1.75″ |
Panola County has no tight season -- it takes 7 months (February through August) to account for 88% of the 24 days on record. March is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (21%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in October, November and December, outside that window. January and September are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| March | 5 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 3 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Endville. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-06 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2026-02-26 | 1.25″ | 4 |
| 2025-04-02 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-12-09 | 2.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-02 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-11 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2023-04-27 | 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 4 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: Tate County (18 hail days), Yalobusha County (15) and Lafayette County (21). Panola County takes more hail than any of them.
Tate County · Yalobusha County · Lafayette County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Panola County, Mississippi only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.