Runnels County was hit as recently as 2026-05-19, 73 days ago. Runnels County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 4.5 inches, a softball and 4.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2014-06-12 near Hatchel.
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 2026-05-19, around Rowena. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Runnels 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 50 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 111 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 8 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 23 days since 2022, against 2.2 a year before that.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 14 of the 50 days reached 2 inches or more, 28% of them, the last on 2026-05-10. They land in the same month as everything else, May. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 31 of 50 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
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Reports cluster nearest Ballinger -- 22 of the county's 50 hail days -- then Wingate (10), Winters (9), Miles (8) and Rowena (7). That one town is named on 44% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Hatchel, Norton, Wilmeth, Crews and Bronte on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Ballinger | 12 | 3.00″ |
| Wingate | 10 | 2.50″ |
| Miles | 7 | 2.75″ |
| Rowena | 6 | 1.75″ |
| Hatchel | 3 | 4.50″ |
The season runs March through May: 43 of the 50 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (86%). May is the single busiest month, with 28 of them (56%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in June, July and October, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 4 |
| April | 11 |
| May | 28 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 2 |
| October | 2 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Rowena. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-19 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2026-05-10 | 3.25″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-15 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-29 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-23 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-19 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-30 | 2.50″ | 3 |
| 2024-05-22 | 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 4.5 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: Coke County (31 hail days), Concho County (28) and Coleman County (60). Runnels County sits in between.
Coke County · Concho County · Coleman County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Runnels County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.