The most recent reported hail day was 2025-04-02 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Tipton County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2025-02-15 near Gilt Edge.
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 2025-04-02, around Brighton. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Tipton 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 23 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 36 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 6 of the 23 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Tipton County: all 23 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 1 of the 23 days.
Across the whole of Tennessee, see the Tennessee hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Atoka -- 5 of the county's 23 hail days -- then Gilt Edge (4), Burlison (4), Covington (3) and Mason (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Munford, Drummonds, Dixonville and Brighton on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Atoka | 5 | 1.25″ |
| Mason | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Burlison | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Munford | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Drummonds | 2 | 1.50″ |
The season runs December through May: 19 of the 23 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (83%). April is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (30%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July, September and October, outside that window. June, August and November are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 5 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 4 |
| July | 1 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Brighton. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-30 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-02-15 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-15 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-15 | 1.25″ | 4 |
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 1.75 inches, which is the red 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: Shelby County (51 hail days), Fayette County (17), Madison County (29), Mississippi County, Arkansas (23) and Crittenden County, Arkansas (15). Tipton County sits in between.
Shelby County · Fayette County · Madison County · Mississippi County, Arkansas · Crittenden County, Arkansas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Tipton County, Tennessee only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.