Kimball County, Nebraska Hail Map & History
Kimball County was hit as recently as 2026-08-22, 23 days ago. Kimball County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4.25 inches and 4.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2010-05-24 near Kimball.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Nebraska. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 65 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 131 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 2026, with 8 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 19 days since 2022.
11 of the 65 days reached 2 inches or more -- 17%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2026-06-22. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 26 of the 65 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Nebraska, see the Nebraska hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Kimball County
Reports cluster nearest Kimball -- 35 of the county's 65 hail days -- then Bushnell (32), Dix (14) and Oliver Reservoir (3). That one town is named on 54% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Kimball | 10 | 2.75″ |
| Bushnell | 5 | 3.50″ |
| Dix | 5 | 1.50″ |
| 3 W Kimball | 3 | 2.75″ |
| 9 N Kimball | 3 | 1.75″ |
When it hails in Kimball County
The season runs May through August: 58 of the 65 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (89%). June is the single busiest month, with 21 of them (32%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, April and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 11 |
| June | 21 |
| July | 11 |
| August | 15 |
| September | 4 |
Recent Kimball County hail days
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Kimball. 8 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-08-21 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2026-08-13 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2026-08-12 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2026-06-22 | 2.50″ | 9 |
| 2026-05-30 | 2.75″ | 4 |
| 2026-05-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-09 | 1.00″ | 2 |
How to read the Kimball County map
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 4.25 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Banner County (29 hail days), Cheyenne County (80) and Scotts Bluff County (75). Kimball County sits in between.
Banner County · Cheyenne County · Scotts Bluff County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Kimball County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.