Mitchell County was hit as recently as 2026-05-10, 82 days ago. Mitchell County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2012-04-07 near Westbrook.
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 Loraine. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Mitchell 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 38 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 78 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 2021, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 12 of the 38 days reached 2 inches or more, 32% of them, the last on 2026-05-10. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 18 of the 38 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 Colorado City -- 20 of the county's 38 hail days -- then Loraine (13), Westbrook (10) and Cuthbert (6). That one town is named on 53% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Colorado City | 11 | 2.75″ |
| Westbrook | 5 | 2.00″ |
| 3 Nw Cuthbert | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 7 S Colorado City | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Loraine | 2 | 1.50″ |
The season runs April through June: 32 of the 38 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (84%). May is the single busiest month, with 14 of them (37%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, August, September and October, 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 | 14 |
| June | 10 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 6 reports on the map, the biggest 2.75 inches near Loraine. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-10 | 2.75″ | 6 |
| 2026-04-13 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2025-06-08 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-22 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2024-04-30 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-09-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-23 | 2.00″ | 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 3 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: Scurry County (49 hail days), Nolan County (43) and Howard County (45). Every one of them takes more hail than Mitchell County.
Scurry County · Nolan County · Howard County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Mitchell County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.