The most recent reported hail day was 2025-06-08 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Dent 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 2023-05-08 near Stone Hill.
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 2025-06-08, around Howes. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Dent 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 28 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.6 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 45 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: 12 days since 2022, against 1.3 a year before that.
4 of the 28 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2025-03-30. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not April. 8 of the 28 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 Salem -- 10 of the county's 28 hail days -- then Howes (5), Montauk (5), Jadwin (3) and Lake Spring (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Stone Hill, Bunker, Howes Mill and Boss on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Salem | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Bunker | 2 | 2.50″ |
| Boss | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Jadwin | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Lake Spring | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs February through June: 24 of the 28 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (86%). April is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July, August and October, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| March | 5 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 2 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Howes. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-30 | 2.50″ | 3 |
| 2025-03-14 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-26 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-08 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-18 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2023-07-01 | 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 2.75 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: Phelps County (33 hail days), Crawford County (27) and Shannon County (24). Dent County sits in between.
Phelps County · Crawford County · Shannon County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Dent County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.