Lawrence County was hit as recently as 2026-05-30, 62 days ago. Lawrence County is hit in most years, often more than once. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2026-04-28 near Aurora.
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 2026-05-30, around Aurora. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lawrence 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 42 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.5 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 83 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2017, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 10 days since 2022.
8 of the 42 days reached 2 inches or more -- 19%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2026-04-28. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 13 of the 42 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 Aurora -- 14 of the county's 42 hail days -- then Mount Vernon (8), Marionville (8), Miller (7) and Stotts City (6). Beyond those, NOAA names Verona, Pierce City, Halltown and Monett on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Aurora | 8 | 2.75″ |
| Mount Vernon | 6 | 2.50″ |
| Marionville | 6 | 2.00″ |
| Pierce City | 4 | 2.75″ |
| 6 Wnw Miller | 2 | 2.50″ |
The season runs March through August: 38 of the 42 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (90%). April is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (26%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, February, September and October, outside that window. November and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 9 |
| April | 11 |
| May | 10 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 5 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Aurora. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-28 | 4.00″ | 5 |
| 2026-04-27 | 2.50″ | 7 |
| 2025-04-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-26 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-08 | 2.00″ | 7 |
| 2023-08-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-15 | 1.00″ | 2 |
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 4 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: Barry County (53 hail days), Greene County (78) and Dade County (18). Lawrence County sits in between.
Barry County · Greene County · Dade County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Lawrence County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.