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Prescott, AR hail history

Every figure below is from the NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database — the official NWS record — counting events recorded within 10 miles of the Prescott city centroid, 1950 to present.

51hail events since 1950
37≥ 1.00" (quarter) or larger
3.00"largest on record · 2001-05-18
2023-03-11most recent hail event

Hail by year — last 15 years

YearHail events ≤ 10 miLargest hail
2026 0
2025 0
2024 0
2023 1 1.00" (quarter)
2022 1 1.00" (quarter)
2021 3 2.50" (tennis ball)
2020 0
2019 0
2018 1 0.75" (penny)
2017 0
2016 5 2.00" (hen egg)
2015 3 1.75" (golf ball)
2014 0
2013 1 1.75" (golf ball)
2012 0

Note: the current and prior year reflect the latest NCEI compile and grow as NWS finalizes reports; same-day activity appears on this site's storm-day pages before it reaches this table.

Wind and tornado record

Most recent recorded events

DateTypeMagnitudeDistance
2024-05-22 Thunderstorm Wind 60 mph 9.8 mi
2023-09-08 Thunderstorm Wind 60 mph 0.3 mi
2023-06-17 Thunderstorm Wind 60 mph 0.7 mi
2023-03-11 Hail 1.00" 0.3 mi
2022-09-25 Thunderstorm Wind 70 mph 8.2 mi
2022-05-21 Thunderstorm Wind 60 mph 0.7 mi
2022-05-14 Hail 1.00" 1.8 mi
2022-05-05 Thunderstorm Wind 60 mph 5.9 mi
2022-04-12 Tornado EF0 1.6 mi
2021-12-10 Hail 1.00" 0.8 mi

2024-05-22: “Tree downed on County Road 252 in the De Ann community.”

2023-09-08: “A tree was downed on Highway 371 in Prescott.”

2023-06-17: “Several trees downed, mainly across the northern portions of Nevada County, including along Highway 67 and Interstate 30.”

Disputing a claim at a Prescott address?

This page covers the city. A claim dispute needs the record around your address: every NWS-recorded event within 1, 3 and 10 miles, the disputed date highlighted, citations formatted for an insurance appeal.

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NWS records are point and path observations. The absence of a nearby report does NOT prove that no hail fell at this address — it means no observation was logged nearby. A report of nearby hail documents the event; it does not by itself prove damage to a specific structure.

source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events computed 2026-06-12