The most recent reported hail day was 2025-11-01, 272 days ago. Nueces County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2025-11-01 near Ingleside.
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 2025-11-01, around Ingleside. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Nueces 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 16 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 37 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 9 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2012 alone produced 6 of the 16 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 1 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
2 of the 16 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2025-11-01. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 6 of the 16 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 Corpus Christi -- 6 of the county's 16 hail days -- then Robstown (5), Cc Nas (4), Driscoll (4) and Chapman Ranch (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Driscoll | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Corpus Christi | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 7 Sse Cc Nas | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 4 N Robstown | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 6 Ese Cc Nas | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs March through June: 13 of the 16 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (81%). April is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (44%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, August and November, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| March | 1 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 3 |
| August | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 3 inches near Ingleside. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-01 | 3.00″ | 2 |
| 2020-08-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-06-05 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2017-06-04 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2016-06-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-04-24 | 2.75″ | 6 |
| 2015-04-22 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2015-04-17 | 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 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: Bee County (13 hail days), Live Oak County (13) and Duval County (13). Nueces County takes more hail than any of them.
Bee County · Live Oak County · Duval County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Nueces County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.