The most recent reported hail day was 2025-06-08 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Shelby County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-04-15 near Timpson.
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 2025-06-08, around Center. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Shelby 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 19 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 35 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 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 5 days since 2022.
3 of the 19 days reached 2 inches or more -- 16%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2023-04-15. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 7 of the 19 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 Center -- 9 of the county's 19 hail days -- then Timpson (5), Tenaha (4), Huxley (4) and Joaquin (2). That one town is named on 47% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Tenaha | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Timpson | 3 | 2.00″ |
| 1 Ene Tenaha | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 6 Ne Center | 2 | 1.50″ |
| Center | 2 | 1.50″ |
Shelby County has no tight season -- it takes 7 months (January through July) to account for 84% of the 19 days on record. April is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (42%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in November and December, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 1 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 1 |
| November | 2 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Center. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-08 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-30 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2023-04-26 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2023-04-15 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-03-31 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2021-04-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-19 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2019-04-13 | 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 2 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: Panola County (21 hail days), Nacogdoches County (27), Rusk County (33), De Soto Parish, Louisiana (16) and Sabine Parish, Louisiana (21). Shelby County sits in between.
Panola County · Nacogdoches County · Rusk County · De Soto Parish, Louisiana · Sabine Parish, Louisiana
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Shelby County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.