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Mead, 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 Mead city centroid, 1950 to present.

140hail events since 1950
92≥ 1.00" (quarter) or larger
4.50"largest on record · 2003-05-04
2025-09-16most recent hail event

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Hail by year — last 15 years

YearHail events ≤ 10 miLargest hail
2026 0
2025 4 1.50" (ping pong ball)
2024 4 1.25" (half dollar)
2023 1 1.50" (ping pong ball)
2022 4 1.50" (ping pong ball)
2021 6 2.50" (tennis ball)
2020 3 2.50" (tennis ball)
2019 6 2.00" (hen egg)
2018 3 1.75" (golf ball)
2017 5 1.50" (ping pong ball)
2016 7 1.25" (half dollar)
2015 2 1.00" (quarter)
2014 5 1.50" (ping pong ball)
2013 2 1.00" (quarter)
2012 5 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
2025-09-16 Hail 0.75" 7.3 mi
2025-09-14 Thunderstorm Wind 60 mph 6.9 mi
2025-08-09 Thunderstorm Wind 100 mph 8.6 mi
2025-07-15 Thunderstorm Wind 64 mph 7.8 mi
2025-07-15 Thunderstorm Wind 62 mph 6 mi
2025-07-07 Thunderstorm Wind 61 mph 9 mi
2025-06-19 Thunderstorm Wind 58 mph 9 mi
2025-06-19 Thunderstorm Wind 58 mph 9 mi
2025-06-19 Thunderstorm Wind 58 mph 7.6 mi
2025-04-21 Hail 1.00" 8.2 mi

2025-09-16: “Trained spotter report of hail measured up to penny sized.”

2025-09-14: “Amateur radio report of wind gusts estimated up to 60 mph.”

2025-08-09: “A highly damaging swath of severe thunderstorm winds moved across Douglas County, Nebraska, predominantly impacting the western and northern parts of the county, including the Omaha metropolitan area on the morning on August 9th, 2025. ||The storm produced damaging wind gusts, with the highest being”

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

Each recorded hail day in Mead 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