The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-16, 106 days ago. Cole County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2020-03-27 near Elston.
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 2026-04-16, around Eugene. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Cole 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 33 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 121 separate reports between them, better than three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 8 of the 33 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
7 of the 33 days reached 2 inches or more -- 21%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2026-04-16. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not March. 14 of the 33 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 Jefferson City -- 18 of the county's 33 hail days -- then Saint Martins (5), Hickory Hill (4), Lohman (4) and St. Martins (4). That one town is named on 55% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Eugene, Centertown, Russellville, Wardsville, Taos, Elston, Brazito and St. Thomas on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Jefferson City | 14 | 2.50″ |
| Hickory Hill | 4 | 2.00″ |
| Eugene | 3 | 2.50″ |
| St. Martins | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Wardsville | 3 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 28 of the 33 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (85%). March is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (30%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in July, August and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 10 |
| April | 9 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 2.5 inches near Eugene. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-16 | 2.50″ | 3 |
| 2024-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-01 | 1.75″ | 6 |
| 2024-03-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-03-13 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2023-08-02 | 2.50″ | 5 |
| 2023-07-16 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-04-04 | 1.00″ | 5 |
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 3 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: Osage County (19 hail days), Miller County (22) and Callaway County (37). Cole County sits in between.
Osage County · Miller County · Callaway County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Cole County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.