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Simpson, KS 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 Simpson city centroid, 1950 to present.

163hail events since 1950
103≥ 1.00" (quarter) or larger
4.00"largest on record · 1991-04-12
2025-05-18most recent hail event

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Hail by year — last 15 years

YearHail events ≤ 10 miLargest hail
2026 0
2025 1 1.00" (quarter)
2024 3 1.75" (golf ball)
2023 5 1.00" (quarter)
2022 0
2021 3 2.75" (baseball)
2020 1 1.00" (quarter)
2019 7 1.75" (golf ball)
2018 3 1.00" (quarter)
2017 2 1.00" (quarter)
2016 6 1.00" (quarter)
2015 3 1.50" (ping pong ball)
2014 10 1.75" (golf ball)
2013 4 1.00" (quarter)
2012 6 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
2025-06-17 Thunderstorm Wind 58 mph 8.4 mi
2025-05-18 Hail 1.00" 9.3 mi
2024-07-31 Hail 1.25" 5.1 mi
2024-07-31 Hail 1.75" 9 mi
2024-06-04 Hail 0.88" 9 mi
2023-09-21 Hail 0.75" 5.5 mi
2023-07-28 Hail 1.00" 4.6 mi
2023-07-28 Hail 1.00" 7.1 mi
2023-05-09 Hail 1.00" 1.8 mi
2023-05-09 Hail 1.00" 2.4 mi

2025-06-17: “Personal weather station.”

2024-07-31: “Half dollar size hail and 55 mph wind gusts.”

2023-07-28: “Wind-driven hail resulted in widespread damage to corn, soybean, and milo crops. Full grown milo cut down to three inches. Estimated three mile wide swath centered roughly around 350 Road and Q Road.”

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Address lookup by the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder. Records: NOAA NCEI Storm Events (final) plus SPC preliminary reports for storms newer than the latest compile — see methodology.

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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 2026-07-25