The most recent reported hail day was 2025-09-08, 326 days ago. Gray County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4.5 inches, a softball and 4.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-06-13 near McLean.
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 2025-09-08, around Lefors. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Gray 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 70 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 4.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 175 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 2018, with 7 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 11 days since 2022, against 4.9 a year before that.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 23 of the 70 days reached 2 inches or more, 33% of them, the last on 2025-09-08. They land in the same month as everything else, May. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 40 of 70 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Texas, see the Texas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Pampa -- 29 of the county's 70 hail days -- then Lefors (17), Mclean (14), Kingsmill (11) and Lake McClellan (8). That one town is named on 41% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Codman, Alanreed, Kellerville, Groom and Miami on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Pampa | 11 | 3.00″ |
| Lefors | 9 | 2.75″ |
| McLean | 6 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Sse Pampa | 3 | 2.75″ |
| Lake McClellan | 3 | 2.75″ |
The season runs April through August: 56 of the 70 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (80%). May is the single busiest month, with 23 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. January and February are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 4 |
| April | 12 |
| May | 23 |
| June | 11 |
| July | 5 |
| August | 5 |
| September | 3 |
| October | 4 |
| November | 2 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 2.75 inches near Lefors. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-08 | 2.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-26 | 2.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-28 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2024-11-01 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-06 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-13 | 4.50″ | 10 |
| 2023-06-12 | 2.75″ | 6 |
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 4.5 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: Roberts County (37 hail days), Carson County (73) and Donley County (59). Gray County sits in between.
Roberts County · Carson County · Donley County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Gray County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.