The most recent reported hail day was 2024-08-16 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Cherokee County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 4.25 inches and 4.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-05-22 near Peggs.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Oklahoma. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2024-08-16, around Tahlequah. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Cherokee 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 26 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.5 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 41 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 2024, with 4 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 10 days since 2022, against 1.3 a year before that.
3 of the 26 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 9, the last on 2022-05-15. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 9 of the 26 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Oklahoma, see the Oklahoma hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Tahlequah -- 13 of the county's 26 hail days -- then Peggs (8), Cookson (4), Hulbert (4) and Scraper (2). That one town is named on 50% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Tahlequah | 7 | 3.00″ |
| Peggs | 5 | 2.75″ |
| 3 N Tahlequah | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 2 N Peggs | 1 | 4.25″ |
| 3 Ne Cookson | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs March through August: 22 of the 26 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (85%). May is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (27%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January and October, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 2 |
| October | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Tahlequah. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-08 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-03-14 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2023-06-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-01-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-15 | 2.00″ | 3 |
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 4.25 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: Adair County (22 hail days), Mayes County (37) and Muskogee County (33). Cherokee County sits in between.
Adair County · Mayes County · Muskogee County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Cherokee County, Oklahoma only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.