Madison County was hit as recently as 2026-06-29, 32 days ago. Madison County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 3.5 inches and 3.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2024-06-25 near Meadow Grove.
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 2026-06-29, around Norfolk. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Madison 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 39 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.3 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 87 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 2014, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 11 days since 2022.
7 of the 39 days reached 2 inches or more -- 18%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2024-06-25. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not June. 14 of the 39 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 Norfolk -- 14 of the county's 39 hail days -- then Madison (14), Meadow Grove (9), Newman Grove (7) and Battle Creek (6). Beyond those, NOAA names Tilden on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Newman Grove | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Madison | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 3 SE Meadow Grove | 3 | 3.00″ |
| Norfolk | 3 | 3.00″ |
| Meadow Grove | 3 | 2.00″ |
The season runs April through August: 33 of the 39 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (85%). June is the single busiest month, with 14 of them (36%). 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 | 6 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 14 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 6 |
| September | 3 |
| October | 2 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Norfolk. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-29 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2025-06-16 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2025-03-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-25 | 3.50″ | 9 |
| 2023-09-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-30 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-04 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-16 | 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 3.5 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: Stanton County (22 hail days), Pierce County (32) and Antelope County (33). Madison County takes more hail than any of them.
Stanton County · Pierce County · Antelope County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Madison County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.