Hooker County was hit as recently as 2026-07-04, 27 days ago. Hooker County has recorded hail in nearly every year on the archive. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2024-07-19 near Whitman.
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 Mullen. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Hooker 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 27 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 53 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2013, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 7 of the 27 days reached 2 inches or more, 26% of them, the last on 2025-08-03. They land in the same month as everything else, June. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 16 of 27 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Nebraska, see the Nebraska hail map and history.
Only one place in the county is named on more than a single hail day: Mullen, on 25 of them. That one town is named on 93% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Mullen | 8 | 3.00″ |
| 5 W Mullen | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 17 Sw Mullen | 3 | 1.50″ |
| 3 S Mullen | 2 | 2.50″ |
| 12 S Mullen | 2 | 2.00″ |
The season runs May through August: 25 of the 27 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (93%). June is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (37%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 10 |
| July | 7 |
| August | 4 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Mullen. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-04 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-08-03 | 2.25″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-19 | 4.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-06-07 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-06 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2020-07-20 | 2.50″ | 2 |
| 2019-05-17 | 1.75″ | 5 |
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 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: Thomas County (27 hail days), McPherson County (43) and Grant County (32). Hooker County sits in between.
Thomas County · McPherson County · Grant County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Hooker County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.