The most recent reported hail day was 2024-05-16 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Jasper 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 2019-05-09 near Jasper.
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 2024-05-16, around Buna. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Jasper 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 18 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.1 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 29 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2024, with 3 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
2 of the 18 days reached 2 inches or more -- 11%, or about one hail day in 9, the last on 2019-05-09. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 5 of the 18 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 Kirbyville -- 7 of the county's 18 hail days -- then Jasper (6), Magnolia Springs (3), Evadale (2) and Buna (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Kirbyville | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Jasper | 4 | 1.50″ |
| Magnolia Springs | 2 | 2.00″ |
| 4 W Jasper | 1 | 2.75″ |
| 3 E Sam Rayburn Dam | 1 | 2.50″ |
The season runs January through May: 16 of the 18 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (89%). April is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in June and December, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 3 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Buna. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-01-26 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-13 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2019-05-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-09 | 2.75″ | 5 |
| 2018-05-26 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2017-04-26 | 1.25″ | 4 |
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: Newton County (13 hail days), Tyler County (21) and Hardin County (19). Jasper County sits in between.
Newton County · Tyler County · Hardin County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Jasper County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.