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Edition 1997-03

Hail days by metro, March 1997.

In March 1997, 33 of 333 metros had at least one day with a hail report within 10 miles of their centre, against 54 in March 1996. Oklahoma City, OK led with 2 days. On 100 percent of metro hail days at least one report was measured by a person or an instrument; the rest were detected by radar alone. Nationally the month had 18 days with hail on record, against 20 a year earlier.

33

Of 333 metros with a hail day

18

Days with hail on record nationally

100%

Of metro hail days carried a measured report

4.50in

Largest measured, 14 Mar, TX

Hail days by metro, March 1997

Against each metro's own March on record

Hail days by metro, March 1997: each metro's hail days in the window, its year to date, its own mean for the span over the record, the share of its days carried by a measured report, and its largest measured and largest detected hail.
Rank Metro Days Year to date March mean Measured share Largest measured Largest detected
01 Oklahoma City, OK 2 2 No prior year 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
02 Tulsa, OK 2 2 No prior year 100% 2 of 2 days measured 3.75″ None detected
03 Wichita, KS 2 2 No prior year 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
04 Columbus, GA 2 2 No prior year 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
05 San Antonio, TX 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
06 Indianapolis, IN 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
07 Nashville, TN 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
08 Louisville, KY 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
09 Kansas City, MO 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
10 Raleigh, NC 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
11 Virginia Beach, VA 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
12 Bakersfield, CA 1 2 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
13 Lexington-Fayette, KY 1 2 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
14 Greensboro, NC 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
15 Durham, NC 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
16 St. Louis, MO 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
17 Chesapeake, VA 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
18 Norfolk, VA 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
19 Little Rock, AR 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
20 Tallahassee, FL 1 2 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
21 Knoxville, TN 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
22 Overland Park, KS 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
23 Birmingham, AL 1 2 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
24 Kansas City, KS 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
25 Olathe, KS 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
26 McAllen, TX 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 4.50″ None detected
27 Waco, TX 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
28 Norman, OK 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
29 Abilene, TX 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
30 Athens, GA 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
31 Topeka, KS 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
32 Broken Arrow, OK 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
33 Suffolk, VA 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected

By state

The states by the hail days filed under each by its source, busiest first, with March 1996 beside it. The first 15 of 26; the rest are on their own pages.

  1. 01 Texas 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 4.50″
    • 6 in March 1996
  2. 02 Alabama 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 9 in March 1996
  3. 03 Oklahoma 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 3.75″
    • 5 in March 1996
  4. 04 Arkansas 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 6 in March 1996
  5. 05 Georgia 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 2.50″
    • 6 in March 1996
  6. 06 Tennessee 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 4.00″
    • 6 in March 1996
  7. 07 Missouri 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 5 in March 1996
  8. 08 Kansas 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 3 in March 1996
  9. 09 Mississippi 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 7 in March 1996
  10. 10 Florida 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 7 in March 1996
  11. 11 Kentucky 2 days
    • 2 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 3 in March 1996
  12. 12 North Carolina 2 days
    • 2 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 4 in March 1996
  13. 13 Maryland 2 days
    • 2 measured
    • 1.75″
    • none in March 1996
  14. 14 Louisiana 2 days
    • 2 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 7 in March 1996
  15. 15 Pennsylvania 2 days
    • 2 measured
    • 0.75″
    • none in March 1996

The busiest day of the month

Friday 28 March 1997

Hail reports
161
Sources
×1
Measured
4.00″
States
13

Against March 1996

The same month a year earlier, counted the same way. Shreveport, LA led then with 3 days.

33 −21

Metros with a hail day

March 1996 54

18 −2

Days with hail on record nationally

March 1996 20

18 −2

Days with a measured hail report

March 1996 20

598 −500

Hail reports, all sources

March 1996 1,098

Cite this edition

Titan Weather, Hail days by metro, March 1997. Compiled 24 August 2026. https://titanweather.com/data/1997/03

Compiled 24 August 2026 from the public federal storm record. The figures are the record as it stands; a revision by a federal source is carried here at the same address. The file carries every metro in the series, the ones with nothing this month included, with the same provenance line inside it.

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How this series is made

A metro
A metro, as this series uses the word, is a place the Census Bureau lists with a population of 100,000 or more, not a metropolitan statistical area. Smaller places have a hail-history page of their own; they are not in this table.
A hail day
A calendar date with at least one hail report in the archive within 10 miles of the metro's Census centre, from any source. Four sources describing one storm are one afternoon of hail, not four.
The mean
The metro's own hail days over the same span of the calendar in each prior year the record reaches, divided by those years. The record has no prior year yet, so no mean is printed.
The measured share
Of a metro's hail days, the share on which at least one report came from a person or an instrument rather than from radar alone. A detection is a detection and is marked as one here and in every document we issue; the two are never added together.
Overlap
Two metros within 20 miles of each other share reports, so their counts are not exclusive and the national figures are distinct dates, not a sum of the table. The table ranks the record around each centre; it is not a report on any property, and it states no opinion about one.
The record
Searched from 1997 to today. Compiled 24 August 2026 and rebuilt as the federal sources revise it. Records are reproduced as the federal sources published them. The coverage page states what the record holds, by kind and by year.

About this record

Everything here is reproduced from public federal and volunteer weather records, as the agencies and observer networks that publish them released it. Titan Weather compiles the record; it does not observe the weather, and it is not affiliated with any source it cites.

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