Panola County was hit as recently as 2026-05-22, 70 days ago. Panola County has recorded hail in nearly every year on the archive. The largest stone on record here is 3.5 inches and 3.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-06-13 near Gary City.
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 2026-05-22, around Tatum. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Panola 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 21 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 32 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
3 of the 21 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2023-06-13. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 7 of the 21 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 Carthage -- 10 of the county's 21 hail days -- then Gary City (6), Waskom (5) and Beckville (2). That one town is named on 48% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Ssw Waskom | 4 | 2.75″ |
| Gary City | 4 | 1.25″ |
| Carthage | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 6 WNW Gary City | 1 | 3.50″ |
| 2 Nne Carthage | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs March through June: 17 of the 21 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (81%). April is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (38%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, February, October and November, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 3 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Tatum. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-08 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-13 | 3.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-01-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-05 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2021-04-13 | 1.25″ | 3 |
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 3.5 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: Shelby County (19 hail days), Harrison County (31), Rusk County (33) and De Soto Parish, Louisiana (16). Panola County sits in between.
Shelby County · Harrison County · Rusk County · De Soto Parish, Louisiana
Back to the Texas hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Panola County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.