Hale County was hit as recently as 2026-06-23, 38 days ago. Hale 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 2015-05-27 near Abernathy.
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 2026-06-23, around Abernathy. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Hale 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 49 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 107 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2021, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 11 days since 2022.
12 of the 49 days reached 2 inches or more -- 24%, or about one hail day in 4, the last on 2026-05-22. They land in the same month as everything else, May. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 28 of 49 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Texas, see the Texas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Plainview -- 20 of the county's 49 hail days -- then Petersburg (12), Hale Center (12), Abernathy (11) and Cotton Center (6). That one town is named on 41% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Halfway, Aiken, Edmonson and Anton on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Hale Center | 9 | 2.75″ |
| Plainview | 9 | 2.00″ |
| Petersburg | 5 | 2.75″ |
| Abernathy | 5 | 2.00″ |
| Halfway | 3 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through June: 41 of the 49 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (84%). May is the single busiest month, with 21 of them (43%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, August, October and November, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 5 |
| April | 9 |
| May | 21 |
| June | 11 |
| August | 1 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Abernathy. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-23 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2026-05-22 | 2.50″ | 10 |
| 2026-04-03 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-06 | 2.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-25 | 3.00″ | 3 |
| 2024-05-15 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-01 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-23 | 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 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: Floyd County (50 hail days), Lamb County (32) and Lubbock County (83). Hale County sits in between.
Floyd County · Lamb County · Lubbock County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Hale County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.