The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-29, 93 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.
The last hail here fell on 2026-04-29, around Longview. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Gregg 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 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.
Across the whole of Texas, see the Texas hail map and history.
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″ |
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 |
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 |
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.
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.