The most recent reported hail day was 2024-05-06 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Putnam County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2015-07-14 near Cookeville.
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 2024-05-06, around Baxter. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Putnam 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 17 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.0 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 46 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2017 alone produced 4 of the 17 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
2 of the 17 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2015-07-14. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not March. 7 of the 17 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Tennessee, see the Tennessee hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Cookeville -- 12 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Algood (4), Baxter (3) and Monterey (2). That one town is named on 71% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Cookeville | 10 | 3.00″ |
| Algood | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 1 E Cookeville | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 1 Ssw Algood | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 2 W Cookeville | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through July: 16 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (94%). March is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (24%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in February, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Baxter. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-07 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2018-07-20 | 1.75″ | 7 |
| 2017-05-27 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2017-04-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-03-09 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2017-02-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-07-08 | 1.00″ | 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 3 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: White County (13 hail days), Cumberland County (21) and Wilson County (27). Putnam County sits in between.
White County · Cumberland County · Wilson County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Putnam County, Tennessee only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.