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South Bend, 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 South Bend city centroid, 1950 to present.

130hail events since 1950
86≥ 1.00" (quarter) or larger
4.50"largest on record · 1989-04-27
2025-04-17most recent hail event

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Hail by year — last 15 years

YearHail events ≤ 10 miLargest hail
2026 0
2025 8 2.00" (hen egg)
2024 1 1.00" (quarter)
2023 1 1.00" (quarter)
2022 4 1.50" (ping pong ball)
2021 0
2020 1 1.00" (quarter)
2019 0
2018 7 2.00" (hen egg)
2017 4 1.75" (golf ball)
2016 5 1.50" (ping pong ball)
2015 5 1.75" (golf ball)
2014 6 2.75" (baseball)
2013 6 2.00" (hen egg)
2012 4 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
2025-06-19 Thunderstorm Wind 60 mph 5.7 mi
2025-04-17 Tornado EFU 8.5 mi
2025-04-17 Tornado EF0 6.5 mi
2025-04-17 Hail 2.00" 7.6 mi
2025-04-17 Hail 1.00" 8.5 mi
2025-04-17 Hail 1.00" 8.5 mi
2025-04-17 Hail 1.25" 8.5 mi
2025-04-17 Hail 1.00" 5.2 mi
2025-04-17 Hail 1.50" 5.2 mi
2025-04-17 Hail 1.00" 0.2 mi

2025-06-19: “Trained spotter report of a measured 60 mph wind gusts with a handheld weather station.”

2025-04-17: “At approximately 6:20 PM CST on Thursday, April 17, video evidence supports the development of a tornado near 286th St and McKelvie Road that lasted for approximately 2 minutes. No damage was reported as it passed through open fields, supporting an EF-U rating.”

2025-04-17: “At approximately 6:36 PM CST on Thursday April 17, a intermittent tornado developed southwest of Manley, NE based on video evidence. Intermittent tornado circulation passed through mainly open fields, but also through some areas of trees with little to no damage, supporting an EF-1 rating. The maxim”

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

Each recorded hail day in South Bend 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