The most recent reported hail day was 2023-08-24 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Rowan 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 2023-06-26 near Woodleaf.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in North Carolina. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2023-08-24, around Salisbury. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Rowan 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 15 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 26 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 4 of the 15 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.0 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Rowan County: all 15 hail days on record topped out below that. 6 of the 15 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of North Carolina, see the North Carolina hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Salisbury -- 9 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Rockwell (4), Granite Quarry (2) and China Grove (2). That one town is named on 60% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Salisbury | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 2 E Enochville | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 2 S Granite Quarry | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 2 S Woodleaf | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Nw Kannapolis | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs February through June: 12 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (80%). May is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (40%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August, October and November, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 2 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 3 |
| August | 1 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Salisbury. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-26 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2022-05-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-05-29 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2019-05-31 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2018-06-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-03-21 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2016-05-03 | 1.00″ | 2 |
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: Cabarrus County (21 hail days), Davie County (18) and Davidson County (20). Every one of them takes more hail than Rowan County.
Cabarrus County · Davie County · Davidson County
Back to the North Carolina hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Rowan County, North Carolina only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.