Motley County, Texas Hail Map & History
Motley County was hit as recently as 2026-10-13, 17 days ago. Motley County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 5 inches and 5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2025-04-24 near Matador.
Hail size, inches
- 0.25 in, pea
- 0.75 in, penny
- 1 in, quarter
- 1.25 in, half dollar
- 1.5 in, ping pong ball
- 1.75 in, golf ball
- 2 in, hen egg
- 2.5 in, tennis ball
- 3 in and up, teacup
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 2026-10-13, around Matador. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Motley 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 ->How often it hails in Motley County
NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 36 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 70 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. No year since 2010 has gone by without at least one. The busiest single year was 2026, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 10 days since 2022.
8 of the 36 days reached 2 inches or more -- 22%, or about one hail day in 4, the last on 2026-10-13. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 15 of the 36 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Texas, see the Texas hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Motley County
Reports cluster nearest Matador -- 22 of the county's 36 hail days -- then Northfield (7), Roaring Springs (6), Flomot (5) and Folley (2). That one town is named on 61% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Matador | 11 | 5.00″ |
| Northfield | 7 | 2.00″ |
| 1 NE Matador | 4 | 2.75″ |
| Roaring Springs | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 1 NNE Matador | 1 | 4.50″ |
When it hails in Motley County
The season runs April through June: 31 of the 36 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (86%). May is the single busiest month, with 17 of them (47%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, July, October and December, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 9 |
| May | 17 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 2 |
| October | 1 |
| December | 1 |
Recent Motley County hail days
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 2.75 inches near Matador. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-13 | 2.75″ | 2 |
| 2026-07-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-05-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-25 | 3.00″ | 21 |
| 2025-04-24 | 5.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-03 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-21 | 4.50″ | 2 |
| 2022-06-01 | 2.50″ | 1 |
How to read the Motley County map
The colored swath is NOAA's MRMS radar estimate of the largest hail per ~1 km cell; the dots are SPC ground reports. Deep violet is about an inch, the violet grows lighter as the hail grows, and pale lilac to near-white is 2″ and up (hail size vs roof damage). On this county's worst day the reports reached 5 inches, which is the pale lilac band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Floyd County (50 hail days), Dickens County (22) and Cottle County (35). Motley County sits in between.
Floyd County · Dickens County · Cottle County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Motley County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.