The most recent reported hail day was 2024-04-15 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Mercer County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2019-04-08 near Princeton.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in West Virginia. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2024-04-15, around Matoaka. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Mercer 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 21 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 35 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 5 of the 21 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 1.6 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 21 days on record passed it, 5%, the last on 2019-04-08. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 5 of the 21 days.
Across the whole of West Virginia, see the West Virginia hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Princeton -- 7 of the county's 21 hail days -- then Matoaka (4), Bluefield (3), Camp Creek (3) and Montcalm (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Princeton | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Sse Matoaka | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 1 Nne Princeton | 1 | 3.00″ |
| 1 Nnw Princeton | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 3 E Princeton | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 18 of the 21 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (86%). May is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July and August, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Matoaka. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-08-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-07-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-29 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2019-04-08 | 3.00″ | 6 |
| 2018-05-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-07-08 | 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 3 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: Raleigh County (16 hail days), Wyoming County (13) and Monroe County (14). Mercer County takes more hail than any of them.
Raleigh County · Wyoming County · Monroe County
Back to the West Virginia hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Mercer County, West Virginia only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.