Menard County was hit as recently as 2026-05-10, 82 days ago. Menard County is hit in most years, often more than once. The largest stone on record here is 5 inches and 5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2025-05-26 near Menard.
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 2026-05-10, around Hext. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Menard 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 34 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.0 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 63 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2024, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 11 days since 2022.
8 of the 34 days reached 2 inches or more -- 24%, or about one hail day in 4, the last on 2025-05-26. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not May. 15 of the 34 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 Menard -- 21 of the county's 34 hail days -- then Hext (7), Fort Mckavett (6), London (5) and Cleo (2). That one town is named on 62% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Menard | 9 | 2.00″ |
| 5 E Menard | 3 | 4.50″ |
| Hext | 3 | 2.50″ |
| Fort Mckavett | 3 | 2.00″ |
| 3 N London | 2 | 2.00″ |
The season runs March through May: 29 of the 34 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (85%). May is the single busiest month, with 15 of them (44%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in June, outside that window. Reports span 4 of the 12 calendar months; the other 8 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 5 |
| April | 9 |
| May | 15 |
| June | 5 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Hext. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-26 | 5.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-16 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2024-05-10 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-03 | 2.50″ | 2 |
| 2024-03-15 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-21 | 1.00″ | 2 |
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 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: Kimble County (33 hail days), Mason County (34) and McCulloch County (37). Menard County sits in between.
Kimble County · Mason County · McCulloch County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Menard County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.