Pawnee County was hit as recently as 2026-05-18, 74 days ago. Pawnee County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 4.5 inches, a softball and 4.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-05-12 near Table Rock.
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 2026-05-18, around Humboldt. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Pawnee 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 23 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 41 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2023 alone produced 5 of the 23 days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 12 days since 2022, against 0.9 a year before that.
3 of the 23 days reached 2 inches or more -- 13%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2023-08-11. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not April. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 5 of the 23 days.
Across the whole of Nebraska, see the Nebraska hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Pawnee City -- 8 of the county's 23 hail days -- then Burchard (5), Lewiston (4), Table Rock (3) and Du Bois (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Steinauer and Humboldt on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Pawnee City | 5 | 1.25″ |
| Steinauer | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Table Rock | 2 | 4.50″ |
| 4 SE Lewiston | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Du Bois | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs April through June: 19 of the 23 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (83%). April is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (35%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in July, August and October, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 8 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| October | 2 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Humboldt. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-18 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-25 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-19 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-11 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-05-12 | 4.50″ | 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 4.5 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, over the state line included: Johnson County (23 hail days), Richardson County (31), Nemaha County (33) and Nemaha County, Kansas (35). Pawnee County sits in between.
Johnson County · Richardson County · Nemaha County · Nemaha County, Kansas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Pawnee County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.