Deuel County was hit as recently as 2026-06-24, 37 days ago. Deuel County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2018-08-06 near Big Springs.
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 2026-06-24, around Chappell. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Deuel 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 43 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.5 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 73 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 6 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 4 days since 2022, against 3.2 a year before that.
6 of the 43 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2019-08-13. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not June. 17 of the 43 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 Chappell -- 24 of the county's 43 hail days -- then Big Springs (20). That one town is named on 56% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 4 W Big Springs | 6 | 1.75″ |
| Big Springs | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Chappell | 5 | 1.75″ |
| 1 S Big Springs | 4 | 2.50″ |
| 6 Se Chappell | 3 | 1.00″ |
The season runs May through August: 39 of the 43 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (91%). June is the single busiest month, with 15 of them (35%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in April and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 2 |
| May | 8 |
| June | 15 |
| July | 7 |
| August | 9 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Chappell. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-09-16 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2021-08-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-05-23 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2019-08-13 | 2.50″ | 3 |
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, over the state line included: Garden County (62 hail days), Keith County (84), Cheyenne County (78), Sedgwick County, Colorado (38) and Phillips County, Colorado (42). Deuel County sits in between.
Garden County · Keith County · Cheyenne County · Sedgwick County, Colorado · Phillips County, Colorado
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Deuel County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.