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Blockton, IA 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 Blockton city centroid, 1950 to present.

73hail events since 1950
40≥ 1.00" (quarter) or larger
2.00"largest on record · 1960-04-16
2024-05-21most recent hail event

Hail by year — last 15 years

YearHail events ≤ 10 miLargest hail
2026 0
2025 0
2024 3 1.75" (golf ball)
2023 0
2022 1 1.50" (ping pong ball)
2021 0
2020 0
2019 0
2018 0
2017 1 1.25" (half dollar)
2016 2 1.00" (quarter)
2015 11 1.25" (half dollar)
2014 1 0.88" (nickel)
2013 1 0.88" (nickel)
2012 3 1.75" (golf ball)

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
2024-05-21 Hail 1.25" 10 mi
2024-04-26 Hail 1.75" 6.4 mi
2024-04-26 Tornado EF0 5.5 mi
2024-04-26 Tornado EF1 5.6 mi
2024-04-26 Tornado EF1 9 mi
2024-04-26 Hail 1.00" 6.4 mi
2023-06-30 Thunderstorm Wind 64 mph 0.7 mi
2023-06-30 Thunderstorm Wind 59 mph 0.5 mi
2022-06-21 Thunderstorm Wind 60 mph 9.5 mi
2022-05-17 Hail 1.50" 4.7 mi

2024-05-21: “At 1420 CST, emergency management in Worth County Missouri reported 1.25 inch hail in the town of Sheridan.”

2024-04-26: “Golf ball sized hail was reported east northeast of Sheridan.”

2024-04-26: “NWS Des Moines storm survey found evidence of a EF-0 tornado beginning just northwest of Irena, tracking to the north northeast before crossing the Iowa border near US 169 and continuing into WFO Des Moines' area.”

Disputing a claim at a Blockton 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