The most recent reported hail day was 2021-03-26 -- 5 years ago, with nothing reported since. Bradley County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2017-03-21 near Cleveland.
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 2021-03-26, around Ocoee. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Bradley 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. Those days carry 34 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 10 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 6 of the 18 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 0 days since 2022, against 1.5 a year before that.
2 of the 18 days reached 2 inches or more -- 11%, or about one hail day in 9, the last on 2017-03-21. They land in the same month as everything else, March. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 18 days.
Across the whole of Tennessee, see the Tennessee hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Cleveland -- 12 of the county's 18 hail days -- then Calhoun (2), N Cleveland (2) and Charleston (2). That one town is named on 67% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Cleveland | 9 | 2.00″ |
| 2 E Cleveland | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Calhoun | 2 | 1.75″ |
| N Cleveland | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Wnw Cleveland | 1 | 2.50″ |
The season runs February through June: 15 of the 18 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (83%). March is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (22%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July and August, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Ocoee. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-07-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-03-17 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2017-03-21 | 2.50″ | 8 |
| 2016-04-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2012-08-01 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2012-07-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2012-04-26 | 2.00″ | 2 |
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 2.5 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: Hamilton County (19 hail days), McMinn County (20) and Monroe County (14). Bradley County sits in between.
Hamilton County · McMinn County · Monroe County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Bradley County, Tennessee only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.