Hitchcock County was hit as recently as 2026-07-02, 29 days ago. Hitchcock County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 3.2 inches and 3.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2024-06-16 near Culbertson.
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 2026-07-02, around Stratton. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Hitchcock 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 63 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.7 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 171 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2024, with 8 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 23 days since 2022.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 24 of the 63 days reached 2 inches or more, 38% of them, the last on 2026-07-02. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not August. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 34 of 63 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Nebraska, see the Nebraska hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Trenton -- 23 of the county's 63 hail days -- then Palisade (19), Culbertson (18), Stratton (16) and Stratton Ne (13). Beyond those, NOAA names Ne on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Culbertson | 11 | 2.50″ |
| Trenton | 9 | 2.50″ |
| Palisade | 7 | 2.50″ |
| Stratton Ne | 5 | 2.00″ |
| 8 NNW Stratton | 4 | 3.00″ |
The season runs May through August: 55 of the 63 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (87%). August is the single busiest month, with 16 of them (25%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. 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 | 1 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 14 |
| June | 13 |
| July | 12 |
| August | 16 |
| September | 3 |
| October | 2 |
That day put 7 reports on the map, the biggest 3 inches near Stratton. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-02 | 3.00″ | 7 |
| 2026-06-21 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2026-06-20 | 3.00″ | 6 |
| 2025-09-16 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2025-08-02 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-07-21 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-18 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-19 | 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 3.2 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: Hayes County (52 hail days), Red Willow County (44), Dundy County (59) and Rawlins County, Kansas (77). Hitchcock County sits in between.
Hayes County · Red Willow County · Dundy County · Rawlins County, Kansas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Hitchcock County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.