Nemaha County, Nebraska Hail Map & History
Nemaha County was hit as recently as 2026-08-19, 26 days ago. Nemaha County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2024-04-26 near Nemaha.
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 34 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.0 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 61 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2022, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 13 days since 2022.
7 of the 34 days reached 2 inches or more -- 21%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2024-04-26. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not April. 11 of the 34 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 Nemaha County
Reports cluster nearest Auburn -- 25 of the county's 34 hail days -- then Nemaha (6), Johnson (4), Peru (4) and Elk Creek (3). That one town is named on 74% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Auburn | 9 | 2.25″ |
| 5 Ese Auburn | 5 | 2.00″ |
| Peru | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 3 E Auburn | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Nemaha | 2 | 2.75″ |
When it hails in Nemaha County
The season runs March through June: 28 of the 34 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (82%). April is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July, August and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 10 |
| May | 9 |
| June | 7 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 2 |
Recent Nemaha County hail days
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Auburn. 4 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-18 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-23 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-30 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-04-26 | 2.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-12 | 2.75″ | 3 |
| 2023-04-19 | 2.50″ | 7 |
How to read the Nemaha 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 2.75 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, over the state line included: Richardson County (31 hail days), Johnson County (24), Otoe County (39) and Atchison County, Missouri (29). Nemaha County sits in between.
Richardson County · Johnson County · Otoe County · Atchison County, Missouri
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Nemaha County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.