The most recent reported hail day was 2026-02-26, 155 days ago. Tippah County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2015-03-31 near New Albany.
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 2026-02-26, around Dumas. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Tippah 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 22 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 4 of the 17 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 17 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2015-03-31. They land in the same month as everything else, 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 Ripley -- 7 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Walnut (5), Dumas (3) and Falkner (3). That one town is named on 41% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Ripley | 4 | 1.00″ |
| Dumas | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Walnut | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Falkner | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 12 Ne New Albany | 1 | 2.00″ |
Tippah County has no tight season -- it takes 7 months (March through September) to account for 82% of the 17 days on record. March is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (29%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in February, October and December, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 5 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 3 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Dumas. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-26 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-12-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-09-06 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-03-19 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2015-03-31 | 2.00″ | 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 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: Union County (23 hail days), Alcorn County (14) and Prentiss County (14). Tippah County sits in between.
Union County · Alcorn County · Prentiss County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Tippah County, Mississippi only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.