The most recent reported hail day was 2026-02-13, 168 days ago. Ward County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2019-03-12 near Pecos.
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 2026-02-13, around Monahans. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Ward 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 28 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.6 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 34 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2019, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
5 of the 28 days reached 2 inches or more -- 18%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2025-04-26. They land in the same month as everything else, May. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 14 of 28 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Texas, see the Texas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Grandfalls -- 9 of the county's 28 hail days -- then Pyote (6), Barstow (5), Monahans (4) and Pecos (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Thorntonville on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Barstow | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Grandfalls | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Pyote | 3 | 2.50″ |
| 3 Sse Grandfalls | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Monahans | 3 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 23 of the 28 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (82%). May is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (32%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, August, September and October, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 9 |
| June | 7 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Monahans. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-26 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-03 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-08-28 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-06-26 | 1.75″ | 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 2.75 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: Winkler County (20 hail days), Reeves County (30) and Crane County (20). Ward County sits in between.
Winkler County · Reeves County · Crane County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Ward County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.