The most recent reported hail day was 2025-06-04 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Quay County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 3.5 inches and 3.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-05-25 near Tucumcari.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in New Mexico. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2025-06-04, around Logan. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Quay 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 59 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.5 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 104 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 7 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 17 days since 2022.
9 of the 59 days reached 2 inches or more -- 15%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2023-06-12. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 17 of the 59 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of New Mexico, see the New Mexico hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Tucumcari -- 15 of the county's 59 hail days -- then Logan (14), House (8), Wheatland (8) and Nara Visa (7). Beyond those, NOAA names San Jon, Bard, Glenrio, Ragland, Quay, Ute Lake State Park and Montoya on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Logan | 6 | 2.75″ |
| Tucumcari | 5 | 1.25″ |
| 7 W House | 4 | 2.00″ |
| 1 SW Wheatland | 4 | 1.00″ |
| Nara Visa | 4 | 1.00″ |
The season runs May through August: 51 of the 59 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (86%). May is the single busiest month, with 24 of them (41%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in March, April, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 24 |
| June | 17 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 6 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 4 |
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Logan. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-04 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2025-05-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-10-20 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-28 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2024-05-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-22 | 1.25″ | 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 3.5 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: Curry County (45 hail days), Harding County (28), De Baca County (27), Parmer County, Texas (30) and Deaf Smith County, Texas (64). Quay County sits in between.
Curry County · Harding County · De Baca County · Parmer County, Texas · Deaf Smith County, Texas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Quay County, New Mexico only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.