Thurston County was hit as recently as 2026-05-17, 75 days ago. Thurston County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-07-04 near Thurston.
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 Pender. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Thurston 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 17 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.0 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 27 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2014, with 3 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Thurston County: all 17 hail days on record topped out below that. 6 of the 17 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 Pender -- 9 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Winnebago (4), Thurston (3), Macy (2) and Walthill (2). That one town is named on 53% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Pender | 7 | 1.75″ |
| 7 N Thurston | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Macy | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Walthill | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Sw Pender | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through July: 14 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (82%). June is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (41%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, August and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 7 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Pender. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-30 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-04 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2020-08-14 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2017-06-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-06-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-07-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2015-05-03 | 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 1.75 inches, which is the red band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Cuming County (23 hail days), Wayne County (22) and Burt County (22). Every one of them takes more hail than Thurston County.
Cuming County · Wayne County · Burt County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Thurston County, Nebraska only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.