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Grafton, 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 Grafton city centroid, 1950 to present.

124hail events since 1950
84≥ 1.00" (quarter) or larger
2.75"largest on record · 2020-08-14
2024-07-31most recent hail event

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Hail by year — last 15 years

YearHail events ≤ 10 miLargest hail
2026 0
2025 0
2024 7 1.50" (ping pong ball)
2023 5 1.75" (golf ball)
2022 4 2.00" (hen egg)
2021 0
2020 5 2.75" (baseball)
2019 6 1.75" (golf ball)
2018 1 1.00" (quarter)
2017 0
2016 1 0.88" (nickel)
2015 1 0.75" (penny)
2014 4 1.75" (golf ball)
2013 5 1.75" (golf ball)
2012 9 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
2025-08-09 Thunderstorm Wind 91 mph 7.2 mi
2024-07-31 Hail 1.50" 9.4 mi
2024-07-31 Hail 0.88" 9.1 mi
2024-07-10 Hail 1.00" 6.5 mi
2024-07-10 Hail 0.88" 4.6 mi
2024-07-10 Thunderstorm Wind 60 mph 1.9 mi
2024-07-10 Hail 0.88" 6.1 mi
2024-07-06 Thunderstorm Wind 60 mph 6.3 mi
2024-07-06 Hail 1.50" 9 mi
2024-07-06 Tornado EF1 8 mi

2025-08-09: “The highest measured wind gusts near and along this path included the following: 91 MPH, measured by a mesonet station located three miles south-southeast of Fairmont; 86 MPH, measured by a mesonet station located two miles northeast of Exeter; 75 MPH, measured by a mesonet station located four mile”

2024-07-10: “Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH, accompanied by dime size hail.”

2024-07-06: “A wind gust of 60 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located five miles west of Geneva.”

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

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

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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