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Champion, NE 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 Champion city centroid, 1950 to present.

148hail events since 1950
124≥ 1.00" (quarter) or larger
4.50"largest on record · 1999-08-17
2023-06-28most recent hail event

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Hail by year — last 15 years

YearHail events ≤ 10 miLargest hail
2026 0
2025 0
2024 0
2023 5 1.75" (golf ball)
2022 8 2.00" (hen egg)
2021 0
2020 5 2.50" (tennis ball)
2019 11 1.75" (golf ball)
2018 1 1.00" (quarter)
2017 4 1.75" (golf ball)
2016 4 1.75" (golf ball)
2015 6 1.75" (golf ball)
2014 0
2013 6 2.50" (tennis ball)
2012 1 0.88" (nickel)

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
2025-06-29 Thunderstorm Wind 59 mph 6.5 mi
2025-06-17 Thunderstorm Wind 59 mph 7.1 mi
2025-06-02 Thunderstorm Wind 58 mph 7.1 mi
2025-05-14 Thunderstorm Wind 60 mph 6.5 mi
2025-05-14 Thunderstorm Wind 81 mph 6.5 mi
2025-05-14 Thunderstorm Wind 79 mph 6.4 mi
2025-05-14 Thunderstorm Wind 59 mph 6.9 mi
2024-08-13 Thunderstorm Wind 58 mph 7.1 mi
2024-08-07 Thunderstorm Wind 59 mph 7.4 mi
2024-06-02 Thunderstorm Wind 72 mph 6.5 mi

2025-05-14: “Thunderstorm wind gusts, estimated at 60 MPH, damaged a metal roof and an outbuilding.”

2025-05-14: “Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 80 MPH snapped power poles with building damage being reported in Imperial.”

Storm-day records for Champion — “did it hail on this date?”

Each recorded hail day in Champion has its own page with the official NWS reports for that date.

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Type a street address. We measure it against every hail event the National Weather Service recorded in the last 10 years and show you how many fall within 1, 3 and 10 miles — free, instantly, nothing stored. Rural property with no street address? Enter coordinates as 44.05, -107.31.

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