The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-27, 95 days ago. Shelby County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2021-01-25 near Germantown.
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 2026-04-27, around Ellendale. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Shelby 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 51 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 3.0 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 115 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 10 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 15 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 51 days on record passed it, 4%, the last on 2021-01-25. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in January, not May. 15 of the 51 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 Bartlett -- 10 of the county's 51 hail days -- then Germantown (9), Arlington (9), Millington (9) and Lakeland (7). Beyond those, NOAA names Collierville, Cordova, Whitehaven, Southeast Memphis, Midtown Memphis, Downtown Memphis, Ellendale, Frayser and Eads on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Arlington | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Bartlett | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Millington | 5 | 1.75″ |
| 2 N Germantown | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Lakeland | 4 | 1.00″ |
Shelby County has no tight season -- it takes 7 months (March through September) to account for 82% of the 51 days on record. May is the single busiest month, with 13 of them (25%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has been reported in all 12 calendar months here, so the window above is where it concentrates rather than a boundary.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 11 |
| May | 13 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 5 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 3 |
| October | 3 |
| November | 2 |
| December | 2 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Ellendale. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-27 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-04-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-02 | 1.75″ | 10 |
| 2025-03-30 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2024-07-08 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-22 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-04-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-09-05 | 1.50″ | 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, over the state line included: Fayette County (17 hail days), Tipton County (23), Madison County (29), DeSoto County, Mississippi (35) and Crittenden County, Arkansas (15). Shelby County takes more hail than any of them.
Fayette County · Tipton County · Madison County · DeSoto County, Mississippi · Crittenden County, Arkansas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Shelby County, Tennessee only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.