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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
2026-05-17 Thunderstorm Wind 59 mph 8.9 mi
2026-05-17 Tornado EF1 7.3 mi
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

2026-05-17: “Personal weather station measured wind gust of 59 mph.”

2026-05-17: “A tornado developed in an open field, snapping and throwing several large branches in a field. It then progressed east northeast to the Sandy Pointe lake area where it threw a dock approximately 100 yards, removed shingles from one house, and removed much of a roof from another house, throwing it ap”

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

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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Nearby hail history

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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 2026-09-10