The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-28, 94 days ago. Union County is hit in most years. 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 2021-04-09 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 2026-04-28, around New Albany. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Union 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 23 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 36 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 2011, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 23 days on record passed it, 9%, the last on 2021-04-09. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 7 of the 23 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 New Albany -- 13 of the county's 23 hail days -- then Blue Springs (5), Etta (3), Keownville (3) and Dumas (2). That one town is named on 57% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names New Harmony on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| New Albany | 7 | 1.75″ |
| Blue Springs | 3 | 2.50″ |
| 4 S New Albany | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 4 S Dumas | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 1 NNW Blue Springs | 1 | 1.75″ |
Union County has no tight season -- it takes 7 months (October through April) to account for 83% of the 23 days on record. April is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (35%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in May and June, 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 | 8 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 2 |
| October | 2 |
| November | 2 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near New Albany. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-05 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-12-09 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-11 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2022-11-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-10-12 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-02 | 1.75″ | 4 |
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: Pontotoc County (20 hail days), Lee County (40) and Tippah County (17). Union County sits in between.
Pontotoc County · Lee County · Tippah County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Union County, Mississippi only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.