Saline County was hit as recently as 2026-06-17, 44 days ago. Saline County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2014-04-03 near Marshall.
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 2026-06-17, around Nelson. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Saline 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 14 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 30 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 2 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
2 of the 14 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2026-06-17. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 5 of the 14 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 Marshall -- 5 of the county's 14 hail days -- then Sweet Springs (5) and Nelson (3).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Sweet Springs | 5 | 1.25″ |
| Marshall | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 7 E Marshall | 1 | 2.50″ |
| 3 SSW Nelson | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 4 Se Gilliam | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 12 of the 14 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (86%). April is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 3 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Nelson. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-17 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-03-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-09-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-31 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2019-05-14 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2018-06-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-02-28 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2016-05-26 | 1.75″ | 4 |
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 2.5 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: Cooper County (14 hail days), Pettis County (27) and Carroll County (14). Saline County sits in between.
Cooper County · Pettis County · Carroll County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Saline County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.