Phelps County, Nebraska Hail Map & History
Phelps County was hit as recently as 2026-09-12, 2 days ago. Phelps County is hit in most years, often more than once. 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 2024-07-06 near Funk.
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 2026-09-12, around Holdrege. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Phelps 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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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 69 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 2011, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 12 days since 2022.
5 of the 38 days reached 2 inches or more -- 13%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2024-07-06. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in July, not May. 15 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.
Hardest-hit places in Phelps County
Reports cluster nearest Holdrege -- 20 of the county's 38 hail days -- then Bertrand (8), Funk (6), Elm Creek (5) and Atlanta (4). That one town is named on 53% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Loomis and Odessa on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Holdrege | 6 | 2.00″ |
| Bertrand | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 4 S Elm Creek | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 8 N Holdrege | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 8 S Elm Creek | 2 | 1.75″ |
When it hails in Phelps County
The season runs April through August: 31 of the 38 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (82%). May is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (26%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September, October and November, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 3 |
| May | 10 |
| June | 9 |
| July | 6 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 3 |
| October | 3 |
| November | 1 |
Recent Phelps County hail days
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Holdrege. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-12 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2026-06-10 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-16 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-06 | 2.75″ | 7 |
| 2024-05-03 | 2.00″ | 8 |
| 2023-10-12 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-10-03 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-22 | 2.50″ | 2 |
How to read the Phelps 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: Kearney County (34 hail days), Harlan County (44) and Gosper County (27). Phelps County sits in between.
Kearney County · Harlan County · Gosper County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Phelps County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.