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Edition 1997-07

Hail days by metro, July 1997.

In July 1997, 72 of 333 metros had at least one day with a hail report within 10 miles of their centre, against 62 in July 1996. Tulsa, OK led with 4 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 31 days with hail on record, against 31 a year earlier.

72

Of 333 metros with a hail day

31

Days with hail on record nationally

100%

Of metro hail days carried a measured report

4.50in

Largest measured, 13 Jul, SD

Hail days by metro, July 1997

Against each metro's own July on record

Hail days by metro, July 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 July mean Measured share Largest measured Largest detected
01 Tulsa, OK 4 10 No prior year 100% 4 of 4 days measured 1.25″ None detected
02 Tampa, FL 4 6 No prior year 100% 4 of 4 days measured 1.00″ None detected
03 Detroit, MI 3 4 No prior year 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.00″ None detected
04 Columbia, SC 3 4 No prior year 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.75″ None detected
05 Wilmington, NC 3 3 No prior year 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.00″ None detected
06 Raleigh, NC 2 6 No prior year 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
07 Wichita, KS 2 6 No prior year 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
08 Cincinnati, OH 2 2 No prior year 100% 2 of 2 days measured 2.75″ None detected
09 Cape Coral, FL 2 2 No prior year 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
10 Springfield, MA 2 2 No prior year 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
11 Warren, MI 2 2 No prior year 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
12 Rochester, MN 2 3 No prior year 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
13 Broken Arrow, OK 2 5 No prior year 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.25″ None detected
14 Dearborn, MI 2 3 No prior year 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
15 Sandy Springs, GA 2 6 No prior year 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
16 Chicago, IL 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
17 Jacksonville, FL 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
18 Denver, CO 1 5 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
19 Memphis, TN 1 3 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
20 Albuquerque, NM 1 2 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
21 Tucson, AZ 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
22 Atlanta, GA 1 3 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
23 Minneapolis, MN 1 3 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
24 Arlington, TX 1 2 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
25 Orlando, FL 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
26 St. Paul, MN 1 3 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.75″ None detected
27 Pittsburgh, PA 1 2 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
28 Durham, NC 1 3 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
29 Buffalo, NY 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
30 Port St. Lucie, FL 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
31 Norfolk, VA 1 3 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
32 Spokane, WA 1 2 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
33 Richmond, VA 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
34 Hialeah, FL 1 2 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
35 Des Moines, IA 1 2 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
36 Fayetteville, NC 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
37 Sioux Falls, SD 1 2 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
38 Little Rock, AR 1 5 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
39 Amarillo, TX 1 9 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
40 Grand Prairie, TX 1 2 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
41 Fort Lauderdale, FL 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
42 Cary, NC 1 4 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
43 Pembroke Pines, FL 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
44 Springfield, MO 1 4 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
45 Murfreesboro, TN 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
46 Hollywood, FL 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
47 Bridgeport, CT 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
48 Savannah, GA 1 2 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
49 Pasadena, TX 1 5 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
50 Gainesville, FL 1 2 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.75″ None detected
51 Miramar, FL 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
52 Hampton, VA 1 2 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
53 Palm Bay, FL 1 2 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
54 New Haven, CT 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
55 Sterling Heights, MI 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
56 Topeka, KS 1 4 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
57 College Station, TX 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
58 Lakeland, FL 1 5 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
59 Lafayette, LA 1 3 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
60 Ann Arbor, MI 1 2 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
61 Odessa, TX 1 5 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
62 Waterbury, CT 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
63 Elgin, IL 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
64 Greeley, CO 1 4 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
65 Lansing, MI 1 3 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
66 Miami Gardens, FL 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
67 Spokane Valley, WA 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
68 Davie, FL 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
69 Boulder, CO 1 4 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
70 Bend, OR 1 1 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
71 Palm Coast, FL 1 3 No prior year 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
72 New Bedford, MA 1 2 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 July 1996 beside it. The first 15 of 46; the rest are on their own pages.

  1. 01 Florida 19 days
    • 19 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 5 in July 1996
  2. 02 Kansas 15 days
    • 15 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 14 in July 1996
  3. 03 South Dakota 15 days
    • 15 measured
    • 4.50″
    • 13 in July 1996
  4. 04 North Carolina 12 days
    • 12 measured
    • 2.50″
    • 11 in July 1996
  5. 05 Montana 12 days
    • 12 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 10 in July 1996
  6. 06 Nebraska 11 days
    • 11 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 19 in July 1996
  7. 07 Oklahoma 11 days
    • 11 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 11 in July 1996
  8. 08 Colorado 11 days
    • 11 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 22 in July 1996
  9. 09 Missouri 11 days
    • 11 measured
    • 3.50″
    • 4 in July 1996
  10. 10 Minnesota 10 days
    • 10 measured
    • 4.00″
    • 9 in July 1996
  11. 11 Georgia 10 days
    • 10 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 1 in July 1996
  12. 12 Arkansas 10 days
    • 10 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 5 in July 1996
  13. 13 Texas 10 days
    • 10 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 9 in July 1996
  14. 14 Michigan 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 2.25″
    • 7 in July 1996
  15. 15 Iowa 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 5 in July 1996

The busiest day of the month

Wednesday 16 July 1997

Hail reports
114
Sources
×1
Measured
4.50″
States
14

Against July 1996

The same month a year earlier, counted the same way. Colorado Springs, CO led then with 6 days.

72 +10

Metros with a hail day

July 1996 62

31 ±0

Days with hail on record nationally

July 1996 31

31 ±0

Days with a measured hail report

July 1996 31

1,333 −253

Hail reports, all sources

July 1996 1,586

Cite this edition

Titan Weather, Hail days by metro, July 1997. Compiled 24 August 2026. https://titanweather.com/data/1997/07

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.

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