138
Recorded events
0
Direct deaths
0
Direct injuries
$28.2M
Property damage
Hail in Marion County, Mississippi: 138 recorded events between 1968 and 2026. The strongest on record measured 4. That places the county #1,021 nationally and #18 statewide for this hazard.
Decade by decade
Hail in Marion County, Mississippi: events per decade
Reporting practice changed over time — early decades are undercounted, not calmer.
The busiest decade for hail in Marion County is the 2000s, when 58 of the county's 138 recorded events were logged. Comparing decades is useful for spotting active periods, but the earliest years are thin because systematic reporting for this hazard began later.
Within the Marion County archive, hail makes up 28.2% of all recorded severe weather across 7 hazard types. Nationally the county sits at #1,021 for this hazard and #18 within Mississippi, putting it in the 67.1 percentile of all U.S. counties.
Seasonality
Events by month
Apr is the peak month for hail in Marion County with 41 recorded events, while Oct is the quietest. Seasonality here is a property of the archive as much as the climate: reports cluster where population and spotter networks are densest.
Most recent
Latest recorded events
| Date | Location | Magnitude | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 2026 | COLUMBIA MARION ARPT | 1.75 | $0 |
| Feb 12, 2024 | SUMBAX | 1.75 | $750K |
| Feb 12, 2024 | PICKWICK | 1.75 | $200K |
| Apr 27, 2023 | PINEBUR | 1 | $10K |
| Apr 15, 2023 | JAMESTOWN | 1 | $30K |
| Mar 28, 2023 | COLUMBIA | 1 | $50K |
| Apr 15, 2022 | PICKWICK | 1.25 | $25.0M |
| Apr 15, 2022 | KOKOMO | 1.75 | $1.0M |
| Apr 24, 2021 | KOKOMO | 0.88 | $0 |
| May 27, 2020 | MORGANTOWN | 1 | $0 |
Other hazards here
More from Marion County
- Thunderstorm Wind 206
- Flash Flood 83
- Tornado 54
From the record
What the reports say
Written by National Weather Service staff at the time of the event · public domain
A supercell thunderstorm developed to the southwest of Kokomo and tracked northeast across all of Marion County. It produced a swath of quarter to golf ball sized hail with a few locations seeing hail as large as baseballs. The largest hail was the size of baseballs and occurred in and around the Improve Community. The supercell continued to produce large hail as it moved into northwest Lamar County.
A swath of hail up to tennis ball sized occurred across Marion County as a supercell moved into the county from Walthall County. Golfball sized hail fell near Morgantown, and at the Emergency Operations Center in Columbia. The largest was tennis ball sized hail and this occurred in Foxworth. Quarter sized hail also fell about six miles east of Columbia along Highway 98. The storm then tracked into Lamar County.
Quick answers
Frequently asked
How many hail events are on record in Marion County, Mississippi?
138 hail events are recorded in Marion County between 1968 and 2026, causing 0 direct deaths.
What is the strongest hail recorded in Marion County?
The strongest hail on record in Marion County measured 4.
Where does the hail data for Marion County come from?
All events come from the NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database, the federal public-domain archive of severe weather reports. Dates are UTC, damage is as reported and not inflation-adjusted, and the most recent entries may still be revised.
Cite this page
“Hail in Marion County, Mississippi.” Severe Weather History. severeweatherhistory.com/county/mississippi/marion-county/hail/ · Data: NOAA/NCEI, FEMA, U.S. Census — public domain.