The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-26, 96 days ago. Vernon County has recorded hail in nearly every year on the archive. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2017-03-09 near Walker.
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 2026-04-26, around Walker. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Vernon 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 27 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 62 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
3 of the 27 days reached 2 inches or more -- 11%, or about one hail day in 9, the last on 2026-04-26. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not May. 10 of the 27 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 Nevada -- 11 of the county's 27 hail days -- then Walker (6), Sheldon (5), Deerfield (5) and Harwood (4). That one town is named on 41% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names El Dorado Springs, Milo, Metz, Horton, Montevallo and Moundville on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 4 | 2.00″ |
| Deerfield | 4 | 1.00″ |
| Walker | 3 | 2.50″ |
| 1 NNE Nevada | 3 | 2.00″ |
| 6 WSW El Dorado Springs | 2 | 2.50″ |
The season runs March through July: 23 of the 27 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (85%). May is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (30%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, August and October, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 8 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 2 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 6 reports on the map, the biggest 2.5 inches near Walker. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-26 | 2.50″ | 6 |
| 2025-07-30 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-19 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-05-08 | 1.75″ | 9 |
| 2023-04-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-04-21 | 1.25″ | 5 |
| 2022-03-05 | 1.00″ | 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 2.75 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: Cedar County (25 hail days), Barton County (28), Bates County (38) and Bourbon County, Kansas (26). Vernon County sits in between.
Cedar County · Barton County · Bates County · Bourbon County, Kansas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Vernon County, Missouri only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.