Cherry County was hit as recently as 2026-07-04, 27 days ago. Cherry 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 2014-06-17 near Cody.
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 2026-07-04, around Merriman. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Cherry 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 149 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 8.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 405 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2011, with 18 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 38 days since 2022.
26 of the 149 days reached 2 inches or more -- 17%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2025-06-29. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not July. 65 of the 149 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 Merriman -- 41 of the county's 149 hail days -- then Valentine (32), Cody (24), Whitman (22) and Brownlee (22). Beyond those, NOAA names Mullen, Hyannis, Eli, Kilgore, Nenzel, Wood Lake, Gordon, Crookston and Merritt Reservoir on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Valentine | 10 | 1.75″ |
| Cody | 7 | 2.00″ |
| Merriman | 4 | 1.50″ |
| 20 N Whitman | 3 | 2.75″ |
| 17 Nw Mullen | 3 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through August: 138 of the 149 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (93%). July is the single busiest month, with 48 of them (32%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, April, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 21 |
| June | 42 |
| July | 48 |
| August | 27 |
| September | 6 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Merriman. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-04 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2026-07-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-06-04 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-09-22 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-09-08 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2025-08-09 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-20 | 1.75″ | 10 |
| 2025-06-29 | 2.00″ | 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 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, over the state line included: Hooker County (27 hail days), Thomas County (27), Grant County (32), Todd County, South Dakota (58) and Bennett County, South Dakota (50). Cherry County takes more hail than any of them.
Hooker County · Thomas County · Grant County · Todd County, South Dakota · Bennett County, South Dakota
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Cherry County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.