Sheridan County, Nebraska Hail Map & History

Sheridan County was hit as recently as 2026-08-12, 33 days ago. Sheridan County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2026-08-11 near Clinton.

Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Nebraska. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.

How often it hails in Sheridan County

NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 113 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 6.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 277 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2019, with 12 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 34 days since 2022.

20 of the 113 days reached 2 inches or more -- 18%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2026-08-11. They land in the same month as everything else, July. 48 of the 113 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 Sheridan County

Reports cluster nearest Hay Springs -- 45 of the county's 113 hail days -- then Gordon (40), Rushville (34), Ellsworth (26) and Clinton (11). That one town is named on 40% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Lakeside, Antioch, Bingham and Merriman on more than one hail day apiece.

When it hails in Sheridan County

The season runs June through August: 94 of the 113 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (83%). July is the single busiest month, with 37 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in April, May, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.

Recent Sheridan County hail days

That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Hay Springs. 6 hail days have already been reported this year.

How to read the Sheridan 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 4.5 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: Dawes County (64 hail days), Box Butte County (65), Grant County (32), Shannon County, South Dakota (30) and Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota (57). Sheridan County takes more hail than any of them.

Dawes County · Box Butte County · Grant County · Shannon County, South Dakota · Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota

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FAQ

Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Sheridan County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.