The most recent reported hail day was 2024-04-18 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Pike County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 4.5 inches, a softball and 4.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-04-19 near Clarksville.
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 2024-04-18, around Pike. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Pike 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 18 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 37 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 7 of the 18 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
3 of the 18 days reached 2 inches or more -- 17%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2023-05-06. They land in the same month as everything else, April. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 9 of 18 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Missouri, see the Missouri hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Bowling Green -- 8 of the county's 18 hail days -- then Louisiana (4), Curryville (3), New Hartford (3) and Frankford (3). That one town is named on 44% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Eolia on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Bowling Green | 7 | 1.75″ |
| Curryville | 3 | 2.75″ |
| Frankford | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Clarksville | 1 | 4.50″ |
| 6 Ssw Ashburn | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs March through June: 15 of the 18 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (83%). April is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, July and December, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 1 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Pike. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-18 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-05-06 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2023-03-31 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-13 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2021-06-19 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2018-07-19 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2015-06-28 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2015-04-09 | 1.25″ | 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 4.5 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, over the state line included: Ralls County (18 hail days), Marion County (21), Lincoln County (23) and Pike County, Illinois (16). Pike County sits in between.
Ralls County · Marion County · Lincoln County · Pike County, Illinois
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Pike County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.