The most recent reported hail day was 2024-05-17 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Webb County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 4.25 inches and 4.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2012-05-10 near Encinal.
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 2024-05-17, around Orvil. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Webb 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 25 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.5 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 69 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2012, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
Roof-killing hail is routine here: 7 of the 25 days reached 2 inches or more, 28% of them, the last on 2024-05-13. They land in the same month as everything else, May. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 17 of 25 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Texas, see the Texas hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Laredo -- 15 of the county's 25 hail days -- then Encinal (5), Orvil (4), Aguilares (3) and Rio Bravo (3). That one town is named on 60% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Columbia Bridge on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Laredo | 6 | 1.75″ |
| 7 WNW Orvil | 3 | 2.00″ |
| 4 Se Laredo | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Rio Bravo | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 9 Ese Laredo | 2 | 2.50″ |
The season runs March through May: 22 of the 25 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (88%). May is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (40%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in February and June, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 6 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 10 |
| June | 2 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Orvil. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-17 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-13 | 2.00″ | 7 |
| 2024-04-09 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-24 | 2.00″ | 7 |
| 2022-05-23 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2022-03-21 | 1.00″ | 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 4.25 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: Zapata County (15 hail days), Duval County (13) and Dimmit County (15). Webb County takes more hail than any of them.
Zapata County · Duval County · Dimmit County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Webb County, Texas only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.