The most recent reported hail day was 2024-05-28 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Borden County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 4.25 inches and 4.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2012-04-30 near Gail.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Texas. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2024-05-28, around Lake J.b. Thomas. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Borden 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 21 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 32 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2020, with 3 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.5 a year before that.
3 of the 21 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2024-05-03. They land in the same month as everything else, May. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 12 of 21 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Texas, see the Texas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Gail -- 16 of the county's 21 hail days -- then Fluvanna (3). That one town is named on 76% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Gail | 8 | 1.75″ |
| 17 Nw Gail | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 15 Ne Gail | 1 | 4.25″ |
| 3 W Gail | 1 | 3.00″ |
| 7 S Mesquite | 1 | 3.00″ |
The season runs May through June: 18 of the 21 hail days on record fall in those 2 months (86%). May is the single busiest month, with 12 of them (57%). Hail has also been reported in April and October, outside that window. Reports span 4 of the 12 calendar months; the other 8 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 2 |
| May | 12 |
| June | 6 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Lake J.b. Thomas. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-28 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-03 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-10-03 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2021-05-18 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2021-05-03 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2020-06-04 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2020-05-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-05-23 | 1.75″ | 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 4.25 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: Dawson County (22 hail days), Garza County (34) and Scurry County (49). Every one of them takes more hail than Borden County.
Dawson County · Garza County · Scurry County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Borden County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.