Carter County was hit as recently as 2026-05-31, 61 days ago. Carter 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 2026-04-28 near Grandin.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Missouri. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-05-31, around Grandin. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Carter 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 26 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.5 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 35 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 2025, with 4 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 11 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
3 of the 26 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 9, the last on 2026-04-28. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not April. 8 of the 26 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Missouri, see the Missouri hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Van Buren -- 11 of the county's 26 hail days -- then Ellsinore (8), Hunter (5), Grandin (3) and Freemont (3). That one town is named on 42% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Ellsinore | 6 | 1.75″ |
| Van Buren | 6 | 1.50″ |
| Grandin | 2 | 2.50″ |
| Hunter | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Freemont | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs March through June: 22 of the 26 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (85%). April is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (35%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. 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 | 4 |
| April | 9 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 2 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Grandin. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-28 | 2.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-08-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-16 | 2.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-01 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-03-30 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-20 | 1.00″ | 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 2.5 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: Ripley County (24 hail days), Wayne County (15) and Reynolds County (17). Carter County takes more hail than any of them.
Ripley County · Wayne County · Reynolds County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Carter County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.