The most recent reported hail day was 2024-05-12 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Jefferson County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2024-05-12 near Hamshire.
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 2024-05-12, around Hamshire. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Jefferson 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 19 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 38 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 19 days on record passed it, 5%, the last on 2024-05-12. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not April. 6 of the 19 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 Beaumont -- 7 of the county's 19 hail days -- then Port Arthur (4), Hamshire (3), Bevil Oaks (3) and Nederland (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Port Acres and Winnie on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Port Arthur | 4 | 1.25″ |
| Beaumont | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Bevil Oaks | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Port Acres | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 1 NNW Hamshire | 1 | 2.50″ |
Jefferson County has no tight season -- it takes 7 months (November through May) to account for 84% of the 19 days on record. April is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (37%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in June, July and September, outside that window. February, August and October are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 1 |
| September | 1 |
| November | 1 |
| December | 2 |
That day put 5 reports on the map, the biggest 2.5 inches near Hamshire. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-12 | 2.50″ | 5 |
| 2024-03-15 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-12-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-15 | 1.75″ | 6 |
| 2022-12-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-18 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2018-11-07 | 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 2.5 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: Hardin County (19 hail days), Liberty County (17) and Jasper County (18). Jefferson County sits in between.
Hardin County · Liberty County · Jasper County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Jefferson County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.