Gregg County, Texas Hail Map & History
The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-29, 138 days ago. Gregg County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2024-02-11 near Longview.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Texas. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 24 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 46 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2026, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 9 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 24 days on record passed it, 8%, the last on 2024-02-11. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in February, not April. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 24 days.
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Hardest-hit places in Gregg County
Reports cluster nearest Longview -- 17 of the county's 24 hail days -- then Kilgore (5), White Oak (4), Lakeport (2) and Gladewater (2). That one town is named on 71% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Longview | 5 | 1.25″ |
| 2 SE Longview | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 2 ESE Longview | 2 | 2.75″ |
| 4 SE Longview | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Gladewater | 2 | 1.00″ |
When it hails in Gregg County
The season runs January through May: 20 of the 24 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (83%). April is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (38%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July, October and November, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| February | 2 |
| March | 5 |
| April | 9 |
| May | 2 |
| July | 1 |
| October | 2 |
| November | 1 |
Recent Gregg County hail days
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Longview. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-29 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-24 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2026-03-15 | 1.00″ | 4 |
| 2025-04-30 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2024-05-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-02-11 | 2.75″ | 4 |
| 2023-04-02 | 2.00″ | 8 |
| 2022-03-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
How to read the Gregg County map
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 2.75 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Upshur County (27 hail days), Harrison County (31) and Rusk County (33). Every one of them takes more hail than Gregg County.
Upshur County · Harrison County · Rusk County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Gregg County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.