Tennessee hail history

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Tennessee had hail reported on 255 days from 2016 to 2025, about 26 a year, and on 1,393 days since 1955. The largest hailstone on record in the state is 4.50″ (April 24, 2010). Davidson County had the most hail days of any county from 2016 to 2025 (32).

Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center storm reports. Data through November 6, 2026. Methodology

Report counts rose over the decades as more people and spotters reported storms, so compare recent years with each other rather than with the 1960s.

Tennessee cities with the most hail days, 2016–2025

Biggest hail days in Tennessee since 2016

The largest hail and the biggest storm days since 1955, with radar swaths since 2019: Biggest hail storms in Tennessee history

Tennessee counties

Places with fewer than 5 hail days on record are listed without a link and kept out of search engines.

When hail falls in Tennessee, by month and week: Tennessee hail season

Download every Tennessee hail, tornado and wind report as CSV, by year: Tennessee storm report downloads

All Tennessee cities

Alcoa Algood Arlington Ashland City Athens Atoka Bartlett Bean Station Belle Meade Bolivar Brentwood Brighton Bristol Brownsville Camden Centerville Chattanooga Church Hill Clarksville Cleveland Clinton Collegedale Collierville Columbia Cookeville Coopertown Covington Crossville Dandridge Dayton Dickson Dresden Dunlap Dyersburg East Ridge Elizabethton Erwin Estill Springs Etowah Fairview Farragut Fayetteville Forest Hills Franklin Gallatin Gatlinburg Germantown Goodlettsville Greenbrier Greeneville Harriman Harrogate Hartsville/Trousdale County Henderson Hendersonville Hohenwald Humboldt Huntingdon Jackson Jasper Jefferson City Johnson City Jonesborough Kingsport Kingston Kingston Springs Knoxville La Follette La Vergne Lafayette Lakeland Lawrenceburg Lebanon Lenoir City Lewisburg Lexington Livingston Loudon Louisville Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government Madisonville Manchester Martin Maryville Maynardville McKenzie McMinnville Medina Memphis Milan Millersville Millington Monterey Morristown Mosheim Mount Carmel Mount Juliet Mount Pleasant Munford Murfreesboro Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance) New Tazewell Newbern Newport Nolensville Oak Hill Oak Ridge Oakland Oliver Springs Oneida Paris Pigeon Forge Piperton Pleasant View Portland Pulaski Red Bank Ripley Rockwood Rogersville Savannah Selmer Sevierville Shelbyville Signal Mountain Smithville Smyrna Soddy-Daisy Somerville South Pittsburg Sparta Spring Hill Springfield Sweetwater Thompson's Station Tiptonville Trenton Tullahoma Tusculum Unicoi Union City Waverly Westmoreland White Bluff White House White Pine Whiteville Winchester Woodbury

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