The most recent reported hail day was 2025-06-08 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Howard County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4.25 inches and 4.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2021-05-17 near Forsan.
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 2025-06-08, around Coahoma. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Howard 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 45 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 95 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2016, with 7 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 10 days since 2022.
8 of the 45 days reached 2 inches or more -- 18%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2025-06-08. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 20 of the 45 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 Big Spring -- 34 of the county's 45 hail days -- then Coahoma (11), Forsan (5), Luther (5) and Elbow (3). That one town is named on 76% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Sand Springs, South Haven and Knott on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Big Spring | 16 | 1.75″ |
| Coahoma | 8 | 2.50″ |
| Sand Springs | 3 | 2.00″ |
| 4 W Luther | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 1 SE Big Spring | 2 | 3.00″ |
The season runs April through June: 37 of the 45 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (82%). May is the single busiest month, with 23 of them (51%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, July, August and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 3 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 23 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 3 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 2.5 inches near Coahoma. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-08 | 2.50″ | 3 |
| 2025-05-29 | 3.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-25 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2025-04-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-27 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-05-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-23 | 1.50″ | 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 4.25 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: Martin County (31 hail days), Glasscock County (30) and Mitchell County (38). Howard County takes more hail than any of them.
Martin County · Glasscock County · Mitchell County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Howard County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.