The most recent reported hail day was 2025-04-04 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Bowie County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2025-04-04 near Redwater.
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 2025-04-04, around Redwater. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Bowie 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 38 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.2 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 61 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2021, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Bowie County: all 38 hail days on record topped out below that. 12 of the 38 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Texas, see the Texas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest De Kalb -- 11 of the county's 38 hail days -- then Redwater (8), Hooks (6), New Boston (6) and Texarkana (6). Beyond those, NOAA names Nash, Maud, Leary and Wake Village on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| De Kalb | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Hooks | 4 | 1.75″ |
| New Boston | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 1 Nw De Kalb | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 10 S De Kalb | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs February through June: 31 of the 38 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (82%). April is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (26%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. August are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 2 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 10 |
| May | 8 |
| June | 8 |
| July | 1 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
| December | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Redwater. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-04 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-26 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2023-06-13 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-09-25 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2022-06-26 | 1.00″ | 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 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: Cass County (28 hail days), Morris County (14), Titus County (29), Little River County, Arkansas (17) and Miller County, Arkansas (22). Bowie County takes more hail than any of them.
Cass County · Morris County · Titus County · Little River County, Arkansas · Miller County, Arkansas
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Bowie County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.