The most recent reported hail day was 2024-05-26 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Reynolds County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2017-05-27 near Reynolds.
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 2024-05-26, around Redford. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Reynolds 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 17 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.0 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 34 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
2 of the 17 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2023-05-08. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 5 of the 17 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 Ellington -- 5 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Lesterville (5), Redford (3), Centerville (2) and Garwood (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Ellington | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 1 ENE Ellington | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Lesterville | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Centerville | 2 | 1.50″ |
| Redford | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs March through June: 14 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (82%). May is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (35%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, July and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 1 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Redford. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-26 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-04-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-07 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-08 | 2.50″ | 5 |
| 2023-03-23 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2022-04-30 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2020-06-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-03-02 | 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 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: Iron County (18 hail days), Shannon County (24) and Carter County (26). Every one of them takes more hail than Reynolds County.
Iron County · Shannon County · Carter County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Reynolds County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.