The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-06 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Parmer County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.8 inches and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2017-04-14 near Lazbuddie.
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 2025-05-06, around Friona. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Parmer 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 30 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 65 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 9 days since 2022.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 10 of the 30 days reached 2 inches or more, 33% of them, the last on 2023-09-15. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 14 of the 30 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 Friona -- 13 of the county's 30 hail days -- then Bovina (12), Lazbuddie (6), Rhea (4) and Farwell (3). That one town is named on 43% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Lariat on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Friona | 8 | 2.75″ |
| Bovina | 8 | 1.75″ |
| Rhea | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 4 E Bovina | 2 | 2.75″ |
| 8 W Lazbuddie | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs May through June: 25 of the 30 hail days on record fall in those 2 months (83%). May is the single busiest month, with 15 of them (50%). Hail has also been reported in April, July, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 2 |
| May | 15 |
| June | 10 |
| July | 1 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Friona. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-08 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-28 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-09-15 | 2.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-23 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2022-05-23 | 2.50″ | 2 |
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 2.8 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, over the state line included: Bailey County (22 hail days), Castro County (29), Deaf Smith County (64) and Curry County, New Mexico (45). Parmer County sits in between.
Bailey County · Castro County · Deaf Smith County · Curry County, New Mexico
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Parmer County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.