Hail on June 23, 2023: where it hit

The archived NWS Local Storm Reports for June 23, 2023 hold 209 hail reports across 13 states. The largest reported size, 4.50 inches, was logged 2 times (Lubbock County, Texas). Texas logged the most reports (70). Report sizes are as people reported them.

209
NWS reports
4.50″
largest reported
176
severe size (NWS, 1″+)
13
states reporting

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 June 23, 2023

The 5 largest of 209 reports with a measured size. 2 reports share the top size of 4.50 inches. Report times are not kept in the archived file, so none are shown.

SizeCountyStateLat, Lon
4.50″Lubbock CountyTexas33.46, -101.94
4.50″Lubbock CountyTexas33.46, -101.94
4.00″Morton CountyKansas37.00, -101.86
4.00″Morrill CountyNebraska41.87, -103.34
4.00″Scotts Bluff CountyNebraska41.84, -103.92

Counties with the most hail reports

Top 10 of 73 counties with at least one report; ties are listed by state, then name.

CountyStateReportsLargest
Lubbock CountyTexas214.50″
Scotts Bluff CountyNebraska204.00″
Harris CountyTexas142.00″
Fremont CountyWyoming92.00″
Platte CountyWyoming92.25″
Kit Carson CountyColorado72.00″
Yuma CountyColorado72.75″
Collin CountyTexas71.75″
Pennington CountySouth Dakota61.00″
Sherman CountyKansas51.00″

States with the most hail reports

Top 10 of 13 states.

  1. Texas: 70 reports
  2. Nebraska: 30 reports
  3. South Dakota: 26 reports
  4. Wyoming: 26 reports
  5. Colorado: 23 reports
  6. Kansas: 10 reports
  7. Montana: 7 reports
  8. Florida: 4 reports
  9. Oklahoma: 4 reports
  10. Idaho: 3 reports

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Questions about the June 23, 2023 hail

How big was the hail on June 23, 2023?

The largest reported stone on June 23, 2023 was 4.50 inches, among 209 reports nationwide.

Where did it hail on June 23, 2023?

Reports by state: Texas (70), Nebraska (30), South Dakota (26), Wyoming (26), Colorado (23) and 8 more. Counties with the most reports: Lubbock County, TX (21), Scotts Bluff County, NE (20), Harris County, TX (14).

Did the June 23, 2023 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-2023.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

Sources: NWS Local Storm Reports via the Iowa Environmental Mesonet (reported sizes, preliminary); NOAA MRMS MESH via Iowa State (radar-estimated swaths); US Census cartographic boundaries (county placement). Compiled by Sigurd Lindquist · AGSIST.