Hall County was hit as recently as 2026-06-10, 51 days ago. Hall County is hit in most years, often more than once. 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 2014-06-20 near Grand Island.
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 2026-06-10, around Grand Island. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Hall 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 44 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 118 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2022, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 15 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 4 of the 44 days on record passed it, 9%, the last on 2024-05-20. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 13 of the 44 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 Grand Island -- 25 of the county's 44 hail days -- then Wood River (11), Alda (10), Cairo (7) and Doniphan (4). That one town is named on 57% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Hansen and Saint Libory on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Grand Island | 12 | 2.75″ |
| Wood River | 6 | 1.75″ |
| Alda | 5 | 1.75″ |
| 2 W Grand Island | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Cairo | 3 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through August: 40 of the 44 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (91%). June is the single busiest month, with 13 of them (30%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 8 |
| May | 8 |
| June | 13 |
| July | 6 |
| August | 5 |
| September | 3 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Grand Island. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-10 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2026-05-16 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2025-07-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-07 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-17 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2025-04-01 | 1.75″ | 6 |
| 2024-06-28 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-06-07 | 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: Howard County (41 hail days), Hamilton County (46) and Adams County (56). Hall County sits in between.
Howard County · Hamilton County · Adams County
Back to the Nebraska hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Hall County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.