The most recent reported hail day was 2024-06-01 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Newton County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2024-01-26 near Newton.
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 2024-06-01, around Newton. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Newton 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 13 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 15 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 9 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2024 alone produced 4 of the 13 days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 5 days since 2022, against 0.7 a year before that.
2 of the 13 days reached 2 inches or more -- 15%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2024-01-26. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in January, not April. 5 of the 13 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 Newton -- 3 of the county's 13 hail days -- then Bon Weir (3) and Burkeville (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Newton | 2 | 1.34″ |
| 1 E Newton | 1 | 4.00″ |
| 1 Ne Farrsville | 1 | 2.50″ |
| 1 S Bon Weir | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 1 W Bon Weir | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs January through May: 11 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (85%). April is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (31%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in June and October, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Newton. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-28 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-12 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2024-01-26 | 4.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-04-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-05-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-22 | 2.50″ | 1 |
| 2019-04-04 | 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 4 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties and parishes with a page of their own, over the state line included: Jasper County (18 hail days), Tyler County (21), Hardin County (19), Beauregard Parish, Louisiana (20) and Vernon Parish, Louisiana (22). Every one of them takes more hail than Newton County.
Jasper County · Tyler County · Hardin County · Beauregard Parish, Louisiana · Vernon Parish, Louisiana
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Newton County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.