Adams County was hit as recently as 2026-06-20, 41 days ago. Adams County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4.25 inches and 4.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2014-06-14 near Hastings.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Nebraska. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-06-20, around Hastings NWS Office. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Adams 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 56 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.3 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 194 separate reports between them, better than three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2014, with 9 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 12 days since 2022.
11 of the 56 days reached 2 inches or more -- 20%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2023-08-10. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 23 of the 56 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Nebraska, see the Nebraska hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Hastings -- 35 of the county's 56 hail days -- then Juniata (12), Ayr (11), Hansen (7) and Pauline (7). That one town is named on 62% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Hastings NWS Office, Holstein, Trumbull, Prosser, Nws Hastings Office, Kenesaw and Roseland on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Hastings | 12 | 1.75″ |
| Hastings NWS Office | 6 | 2.00″ |
| 2 E Hastings | 6 | 1.50″ |
| 4 N Hastings | 5 | 2.00″ |
| Ayr | 5 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through August: 46 of the 56 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (82%). June is the single busiest month, with 15 of them (27%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, September, October and December, outside that window. January, February and November are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 14 |
| June | 15 |
| July | 5 |
| August | 4 |
| September | 4 |
| October | 4 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 7 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Hastings NWS Office. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-20 | 1.50″ | 7 |
| 2026-06-10 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-18 | 1.00″ | 5 |
| 2024-06-07 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-10-03 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-10 | 2.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-04-18 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-09 | 1.25″ | 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 4.25 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: Clay County (58 hail days), Hall County (44) and Webster County (41). Adams County sits in between.
Clay County · Hall County · Webster County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Adams County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.