Nuckolls County was hit as recently as 2026-05-17, 75 days ago. Nuckolls County is hit in most years, often more than once. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-08-10 near Nelson.
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 2026-05-17, around Superior. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Nuckolls 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 38 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 74 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 7 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 11 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 3 of the 38 days on record passed it, 8%, the last on 2023-08-10. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in August, not May. 13 of the 38 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 Superior -- 16 of the county's 38 hail days -- then Nelson (10), Lawrence (8), Deweese (5) and Edgar (3). That one town is named on 42% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Oak, Davenport, Hardy, Nora and Ruskin on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Superior | 11 | 1.75″ |
| Nelson | 5 | 2.50″ |
| Lawrence | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 2 E Superior | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 4 Ese Deweese | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through August: 36 of the 38 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (95%). May is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (21%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March 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 | 7 |
| May | 8 |
| June | 8 |
| July | 6 |
| August | 7 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Superior. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-17 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2026-05-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-10 | 2.50″ | 7 |
| 2023-07-28 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2023-07-22 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-06 | 2.50″ | 3 |
| 2023-04-19 | 1.25″ | 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 2.5 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: Webster County (41 hail days), Clay County (58) and Thayer County (56). Every one of them takes more hail than Nuckolls County.
Webster County · Clay County · Thayer County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Nuckolls County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.