Tennessee was hit as recently as 2026-07-28, 3 days ago. NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 390 separate hail days in Tennessee since 2010, across 2,346 individual storm reports. 47 of those days brought hail 2 inches or larger, and the largest stone on record is 4.5 inches on 2010-04-24 near Henderson, Chester.
Tennessee takes damaging hail from spring frontal storms across Nashville, Memphis, and the eastern valleys. Pick a date below to see the NOAA radar swath and reports, or check a specific address.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Tennessee. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
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See call-center options ->Tennessee averages 23 reported hail days a year across 17 years of NOAA archive, about 3 of them carrying hail 2″ or larger -- the size that routinely totals roofs. Major metros watched here: Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga.
Tennessee's busiest hail month is May, with 78 of its 390 hail days on record. March through August holds 325 of them, 83% of the record.
| Month | Hail days since 2010 |
|---|---|
| January | 7 |
| February | 16 |
| March | 48 |
| April | 64 |
| May | 78 |
| June | 69 |
| July | 42 |
| August | 24 |
| September | 15 |
| October | 15 |
| November | 4 |
| December | 8 |
| County | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Shelby | 51 | 2.00″ |
| Knox | 37 | 2.75″ |
| Williamson | 34 | 3.00″ |
| Rutherford | 33 | 2.50″ |
| Davidson | 32 | 2.50″ |
| Madison | 29 | 2.75″ |
50 Tennessee counties have at least 13 NOAA hail days on record since 2010 -- enough archive signal for a page of their own. Ordered by hail days.
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| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-07-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-07-03 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2026-07-02 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2026-06-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-27 | 1.25″ | 7 |
| 2026-03-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-15 | 2.00″ | 7 |
The colored swath is NOAA's MRMS radar estimate of the largest hail in each ~1 km cell; the dots are individual SPC ground reports. Yellow is around an inch, red is 1.5 to 2″, and purple is 2″ and up -- see how hail size maps to roof damage. Click any spot on the map to see the hail history at that point, or look up a full street address on the hail history by address tool. Today's nationwide activity is on today's hail report.
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Tennessee only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.