Hail on May 6, 2022: where it hit
The archived NWS Local Storm Reports for May 6, 2022 hold 160 hail reports across 12 states. The largest reported size, 2.50 inches, was logged 2 times (Caswell County, North Carolina; Cleveland County, North Carolina). North Carolina logged the most reports (57). Report sizes are as people reported them.
A storm day runs 7 a.m. to 7 a.m. Central (12:00 to 12:00 UTC), as the Storm Prediction Center counts it, so an evening storm stays on the day it fell.
Radar swath archive begins after this date. The dated reports on this page are the record for this day.
Largest reported stones on May 6, 2022
The 5 largest of 160 reports with a measured size. 2 reports share the top size of 2.50 inches. Report times are not kept in the archived file, so none are shown.
| Size | County | State | Lat, Lon |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.50″ | Caswell County | North Carolina | 36.50, -79.46 |
| 2.50″ | Cleveland County | North Carolina | 35.26, -81.70 |
| 2.25″ | Cumberland County | Tennessee | 35.87, -85.07 |
| 2.00″ | Richmond County | Georgia | 33.48, -82.07 |
| 2.00″ | Richmond County | Georgia | 33.47, -81.99 |
Counties with the most hail reports
Top 10 of 83 counties with at least one report; ties are listed by state, then name. 2 reports could not be placed in a county and are left out of this table.
| County | State | Reports | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richmond County | Georgia | 8 | 2.00″ |
| Rockingham County | North Carolina | 6 | 2.00″ |
| Smyth County | Virginia | 6 | 1.75″ |
| Caswell County | North Carolina | 5 | 2.50″ |
| Cleveland County | North Carolina | 5 | 2.50″ |
| Wake County | North Carolina | 5 | 1.25″ |
| Lincoln County | North Carolina | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Wythe County | Virginia | 4 | 1.00″ |
| Candler County | Georgia | 3 | 1.25″ |
| Pitt County | North Carolina | 3 | 1.25″ |
States with the most hail reports
Top 10 of 12 states.
- North Carolina: 57 reports
- Virginia: 29 reports
- South Carolina: 26 reports
- Tennessee: 19 reports
- Georgia: 15 reports
- Idaho: 3 reports
- Oregon: 3 reports
- Washington: 3 reports
- Texas: 2 reports
- Florida: 1 report
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Questions about the May 6, 2022 hail
How big was the hail on May 6, 2022?
The largest reported stone on May 6, 2022 was 2.50 inches, among 160 reports nationwide.
Where did it hail on May 6, 2022?
Reports by state: North Carolina (57), Virginia (29), South Carolina (26), Tennessee (19), Georgia (15) and 7 more. Counties with the most reports: Richmond County, GA (8), Rockingham County, NC (6), Smyth County, VA (6).
Did the May 6, 2022 hail hit my address?
Use the hail map's address search: it lists every dated report within 10 miles of any US address (5 or 25 if you pick) and, for days in the radar archive, tests your exact point against the estimated swath, then prints a sourced report you can keep.
How these figures are built
Reports are NWS Local Storm Reports of hail, pulled from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet archive. This page reads data/hail/events-2022.json (pulled 2026-10-17). Local Storm Reports are preliminary and unverified: sizes are what spotters, the public and emergency managers reported, and NOAA NCEI's Storm Data, published months later, is the verified record. A report with no size counts toward the total but not toward the size figures. Severe size means 1 inch or larger, the National Weather Service threshold. Crops can be hurt by smaller hail, especially with wind, and the loss depends on growth stage: the corn growing point stays below ground until about V6, and leaf loss near tasseling costs the most yield. State is the state named on the report. County is not carried in the archived file; it is assigned here by placing each report's coordinates (rounded to about 1 km) inside US Census cartographic county boundaries, so a report near a county line can land in the neighboring county.
Method: one day of hail reports, counted and ranked as filed; county placed by coordinates; severe means 1″ or larger (NWS) · Sources: NWS Local Storm Reports via the Iowa Environmental Mesonet, NOAA MRMS MESH, US Census county boundaries, Assessing Hail Damage to Corn (NCH-1) · Reviewed by Sigurd Lindquist, CCA