Hail on March 14, 2025: where it hit

The archived NWS Local Storm Reports for March 14, 2025 hold 426 hail reports across 17 states. The largest reported size, 2.75 inches, was logged 2 times (Daviess County, Kentucky; Christian County, Missouri). Missouri logged the most reports (156). Report sizes are as people reported them.

426
NWS reports
2.75″
largest reported
336
severe size (NWS, 1″+)
17
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 March 14, 2025

The 5 largest of 426 reports with a measured size. 2 reports share the top size of 2.75 inches. Report times are not kept in the archived file, so none are shown.

SizeCountyStateLat, Lon
2.75″Daviess CountyKentucky37.76, -87.08
2.75″Christian CountyMissouri36.94, -93.28
2.50″Daviess CountyKentucky37.76, -87.05
2.25″Bond CountyIllinois38.88, -89.39
2.00″Clark CountyIndiana38.40, -85.75

Counties with the most hail reports

Top 10 of 132 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.

CountyStateReportsLargest
St. Louis CountyMissouri492.00″
Brazos CountyTexas312.00″
Jefferson CountyMissouri221.75″
Christian CountyMissouri162.75″
Madison CountyIllinois151.75″
Benton CountyArkansas131.25″
Monroe CountyIllinois101.50″
Crawford CountyMissouri101.75″
St. Clair CountyIllinois91.75″
Daviess CountyKentucky92.75″

States with the most hail reports

Top 10 of 17 states.

  1. Missouri: 156 reports
  2. Texas: 51 reports
  3. Illinois: 48 reports
  4. Kentucky: 32 reports
  5. Iowa: 31 reports
  6. Indiana: 26 reports
  7. Arkansas: 25 reports
  8. Michigan: 14 reports
  9. Wisconsin: 12 reports
  10. Louisiana: 8 reports

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Questions about the March 14, 2025 hail

How big was the hail on March 14, 2025?

The largest reported stone on March 14, 2025 was 2.75 inches, among 426 reports nationwide.

Where did it hail on March 14, 2025?

Reports by state: Missouri (156), Texas (51), Illinois (48), Kentucky (32), Iowa (31) and 12 more. Counties with the most reports: St. Louis County, MO (49), Brazos County, TX (31), Jefferson County, MO (22).

Did the March 14, 2025 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-2025.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.