The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-15, 107 days ago. Ray County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2016-04-27 near Lawson.
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 2026-04-15, around Excelsior Estates. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Ray 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 23 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 38 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 2024, with 3 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 9 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 23 days on record passed it, 4%, the last on 2016-04-27. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 10 of the 23 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 Richmond -- 7 of the county's 23 hail days -- then Lawson (6), Rayville (3), Woods Heights (3) and Knoxville (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Orrick and Polo on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Richmond | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Lawson | 3 | 2.00″ |
| 1 SE Richmond | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 3 E Lawson | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Orrick | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 19 of the 23 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (83%). April is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (35%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July and August, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 3 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 1 |
That day put 5 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Excelsior Estates. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-15 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2026-03-10 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2025-07-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-19 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2024-07-11 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-03-13 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2023-06-30 | 1.75″ | 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 2 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: Caldwell County (18 hail days), Clay County (57) and Lafayette County (26). Ray County sits in between.
Caldwell County · Clay County · Lafayette County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Ray County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.