The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-02 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Bedford County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2024-05-08 near Unionville.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Tennessee. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2025-05-02, around Unionville. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Bedford 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 16 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 21 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 4 of the 16 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 16 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2024-05-08. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not March. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 16 days.
Across the whole of Tennessee, see the Tennessee hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Shelbyville -- 11 of the county's 16 hail days -- then Unionville (2). That one town is named on 69% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Shelbyville | 5 | 1.75″ |
| 6 E Unionville | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 2 W Shelbyville | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 5 NNW Shelbyville | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 8 Sw Shelbyville | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs February through July: 13 of the 16 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (81%). March is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (25%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, August and October, outside that window. September, November and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Unionville. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-08 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-02-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-07-12 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2021-08-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-04-05 | 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 2 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: Coffee County (21 hail days), Rutherford County (33) and Maury County (16). Bedford County sits in between.
Coffee County · Rutherford County · Maury County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Bedford County, Tennessee only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.