Payne County was hit as recently as 2026-07-04, 27 days ago. Payne 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 2025-11-19 near Morrison.
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 2026-07-04, around Lake Carl Blackwe. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Payne 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 44 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 83 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 7 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 15 days since 2022.
8 of the 44 days reached 2 inches or more -- 18%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2025-11-19. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 17 of the 44 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 Stillwater -- 22 of the county's 44 hail days -- then Cushing (11), Perkins (7), Lake Mcmurtry (4) and Morrison (3). That one town is named on 50% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Lake Carl Blackwe, Glencoe and Ripley on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Stillwater | 7 | 2.00″ |
| Cushing | 4 | 2.75″ |
| 10 W Stillwater | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 3 N Perkins | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Ripley | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through July: 37 of the 44 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (84%). May is the single busiest month, with 16 of them (36%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. January, February and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 15 |
| May | 16 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Lake Carl Blackwe. 4 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-08 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-15 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-11-19 | 3.50″ | 4 |
| 2025-05-23 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-22 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-19 | 1.75″ | 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: Noble County (23 hail days), Logan County (46) and Pawnee County (21). Payne County sits in between.
Noble County · Logan County · Pawnee County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Payne County, Oklahoma only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.