Red Willow County was hit as recently as 2026-05-30, 62 days ago. Red Willow County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2022-06-05 near McCook.
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 2026-05-30, around Bartley. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Red Willow 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 44 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 132 separate reports between them, better than three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2021, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 14 days since 2022.
9 of the 44 days reached 2 inches or more -- 20%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2025-09-16. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 18 of the 44 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 Mccook -- 29 of the county's 44 hail days -- then Danbury (10), Indianola (7), Bartley (6) and Culbertson (4). That one town is named on 66% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Lebanon on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Mccook | 14 | 2.00″ |
| Danbury | 7 | 2.75″ |
| 3 S Mccook | 5 | 1.75″ |
| 1 N McCook | 4 | 2.00″ |
| 2 W Mccook | 3 | 3.00″ |
The season runs May through August: 37 of the 44 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (84%). June is the single busiest month, with 12 of them (27%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in April, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 1 |
| May | 11 |
| June | 12 |
| July | 7 |
| August | 7 |
| September | 5 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Bartley. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-09-16 | 3.00″ | 17 |
| 2025-07-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-16 | 3.80″ | 18 |
| 2024-05-23 | 1.25″ | 6 |
| 2024-04-25 | 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 4 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: Hitchcock County (63 hail days), Frontier County (61), Hayes County (52) and Decatur County, Kansas (47). Every one of them takes more hail than Red Willow County.
Hitchcock County · Frontier County · Hayes County · Decatur County, Kansas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Red Willow County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.