The most recent reported hail day was 2024-10-21 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Franklin County is hit in most years, often more than once. 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 2023-05-05 near Franklin.
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 2024-10-21, around Franklin. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Franklin 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 76 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2024, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 10 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 4 of the 43 days on record passed it, 9%, the last on 2023-05-05. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 13 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 Franklin -- 18 of the county's 43 hail days -- then Riverton (11), Naponee (10), Upland (6) and Hildreth (6). That one town is named on 42% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Campbell, Bloomington, Macon and Wilcox on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Franklin | 10 | 2.50″ |
| Riverton | 6 | 2.00″ |
| Naponee | 6 | 1.75″ |
| 1 N Bloomington | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 6 N Riverton | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through August: 35 of the 43 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (81%). May is the single busiest month, with 14 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, 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 | 1 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 14 |
| June | 10 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 5 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Franklin. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-07 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-10-12 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2023-10-03 | 1.00″ | 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 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: Kearney County (34 hail days), Webster County (41) and Harlan County (43). Franklin County sits in between.
Kearney County · Webster County · Harlan County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Franklin County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.