The most recent reported hail day was 2023-06-26 -- 3 years ago, with nothing reported since. Dauphin 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 2023-06-03 near Harrisburg.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Pennsylvania. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2023-06-26, around Hershey. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Dauphin 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 18 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.1 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 30 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2020, with 3 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 1.3 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Dauphin County: all 18 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 2 of the 18 days.
Across the whole of Pennsylvania, see the Pennsylvania hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Hershey -- 6 of the county's 18 hail days -- then Linglestown (5), Dauphin (2), Hummelstown (2) and Berrysburg (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Linglestown | 5 | 1.50″ |
| Hershey | 3 | 1.25″ |
| Dauphin | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Hummelstown | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 1 S Harrisburg | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through July: 15 of the 18 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (83%). June is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in April and August, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 2 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 5 |
| August | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Hershey. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-26 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-03 | 1.75″ | 6 |
| 2021-07-06 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2020-07-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-06-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-06-03 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2018-05-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2015-04-20 | 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: Lancaster County (28 hail days), York County (27) and Berks County (24). Every one of them takes more hail than Dauphin County.
Lancaster County · York County · Berks County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.