The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-29, 93 days ago. Limestone County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2026-04-28 near Groesbeck.
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 Groesbeck. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Limestone 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 27 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 51 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2024, with 4 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 13 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Limestone County: all 27 hail days on record topped out below that. 9 of the 27 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 Groesbeck -- 14 of the county's 27 hail days -- then Mexia (9), Kosse (4), Thornton (3) and Marquez (2). That one town is named on 52% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Mart and Coolidge on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Groesbeck | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Mexia | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Kosse | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 6 S Mexia | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 1 N Groesbeck | 2 | 1.25″ |
The season runs April through June: 23 of the 27 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (85%). April is the single busiest month, with 12 of them (44%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in February, March and November, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 12 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 4 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Groesbeck. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-29 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-28 | 1.75″ | 6 |
| 2025-06-01 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-23 | 1.50″ | 7 |
| 2024-05-23 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-12 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-09 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2024-04-28 | 1.25″ | 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 1.75 inches, which is the red band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Freestone County (16 hail days), Leon County (21) and Falls County (17). Limestone County takes more hail than any of them.
Freestone County · Leon County · Falls County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Limestone County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.