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Hebron, IL 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 Hebron city centroid, 1950 to present.

74hail events since 1950
53≥ 1.00" (quarter) or larger
2.90"largest on record · 2018-05-02
2024-08-27most recent hail event

Hail by year — last 15 years

YearHail events ≤ 10 miLargest hail
2026 0
2025 0
2024 2 1.00" (quarter)
2023 1 1.00" (quarter)
2022 0
2021 6 1.50" (ping pong ball)
2020 0
2019 0
2018 13 2.90" (baseball)
2017 9 1.75" (golf ball)
2016 0
2015 5 1.50" (ping pong ball)
2014 5 1.50" (ping pong ball)
2013 4 1.00" (quarter)
2012 1 1.00" (quarter)

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
2025-08-16 Thunderstorm Wind 60 mph 9.1 mi
2025-06-03 Thunderstorm Wind 64 mph 9.4 mi
2025-06-03 Thunderstorm Wind 60 mph 10 mi
2025-06-03 Thunderstorm Wind 64 mph 9.3 mi
2025-05-15 Thunderstorm Wind 58 mph 7.3 mi
2025-03-14 Thunderstorm Wind 64 mph 0.3 mi
2025-03-14 Thunderstorm Wind 64 mph 2.4 mi
2024-08-27 Hail 1.00" 9.2 mi
2024-08-06 Thunderstorm Wind 60 mph 4.5 mi
2024-08-06 Thunderstorm Wind 60 mph 5.4 mi

2025-08-16: “A tree had fallen onto a house along Clay St in Woodstock.”

2025-06-03: “Power lines were downed in the 600 block of Dewey St in Harvard.”

2025-06-03: “Downed power lines and tree branches were reported around Harvard.”

Disputing a claim at a Hebron 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