Edition 1998-01

Hail days by metro, January 1998.

In January 1998, 23 of 333 metros had at least one day with a hail report within 10 miles of their centre, against 18 in January 1997. Tyler, TX led with 3 days, against its own January mean of 0.5 over 2 prior years of record. 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 22 days with hail on record, against 12 a year earlier.

Of 333 metros with a hail day

Days with hail on record nationally

100%

Of metro hail days carried a measured report

4.50in

Largest measured, 5 Jan, TX

Hail days by metro, January 1998

Against each metro's own January on record

Hail days by metro, January 1998: 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	January mean	Measured share	Largest measured	Largest detected
01	Tyler, TX	3 +2.5	3	0.5	100% 3 of 3 days measured	1.75″	None detected
02	Plano, TX	2 +2.0	2	0.0	100% 2 of 2 days measured	1.50″	None detected
03	College Station, TX	2 +2.0	2	0.0	100% 2 of 2 days measured	2.00″	None detected
04	Richardson, TX	2 +2.0	2	0.0	100% 2 of 2 days measured	1.50″	None detected
05	League City, TX	2 +1.5	2	0.5	100% 2 of 2 days measured	0.88″	None detected
06	Allen, TX	2 +2.0	2	0.0	100% 2 of 2 days measured	1.00″	None detected
07	Conroe, TX	2 +2.0	2	0.0	100% 2 of 2 days measured	1.50″	None detected
08	Houston, TX	1 +0.5	1	0.5	100% 1 of 1 day measured	1.00″	None detected
09	Fort Worth, TX	1 +0.5	1	0.5	100% 1 of 1 day measured	1.75″	None detected
10	Arlington, TX	1 +0.5	1	0.5	100% 1 of 1 day measured	0.75″	None detected
11	Pittsburgh, PA	1 +1.0	1	0.0	100% 1 of 1 day measured	0.75″	None detected
12	Durham, NC	1 +0.5	1	0.5	100% 1 of 1 day measured	0.75″	None detected
13	Irving, TX	1 +1.0	1	0.0	100% 1 of 1 day measured	0.88″	None detected
14	Garland, TX	1 +1.0	1	0.0	100% 1 of 1 day measured	1.50″	None detected
15	Frisco, TX	1 +1.0	1	0.0	100% 1 of 1 day measured	1.00″	None detected
16	McKinney, TX	1 +1.0	1	0.0	100% 1 of 1 day measured	1.00″	None detected
17	Amarillo, TX	1 +1.0	1	0.0	100% 1 of 1 day measured	0.75″	None detected
18	Grand Prairie, TX	1 +0.5	1	0.5	100% 1 of 1 day measured	0.75″	None detected
19	Shreveport, LA	1 ±0	1	1.0	100% 1 of 1 day measured	1.00″	None detected
20	Pasadena, TX	1 +0.5	1	0.5	100% 1 of 1 day measured	1.00″	None detected
21	Waco, TX	1 +1.0	1	0.0	100% 1 of 1 day measured	0.75″	None detected
22	Palm Bay, FL	1 +1.0	1	0.0	100% 1 of 1 day measured	1.75″	None detected
23	Wichita Falls, TX	1 +1.0	1	0.0	100% 1 of 1 day measured	0.88″	None detected

By state

The states by the hail days filed under each by its source, busiest first, with January 1997 beside it. The first 15 of 19; the rest are on their own pages.

01 Texas 12 days
- 12 measured
- 4.50″
- 2 in January 1997
02 Louisiana 5 days
- 5 measured
- 2.00″
- 4 in January 1997
03 Oklahoma 4 days
- 4 measured
- 0.88″
- 1 in January 1997
04 Arkansas 3 days
- 3 measured
- 1.75″
- 3 in January 1997
05 North Carolina 2 days
- 2 measured
- 1.00″
- 2 in January 1997
06 Alabama 2 days
- 2 measured
- 0.75″
- 4 in January 1997
07 Mississippi 2 days
- 2 measured
- 1.75″
- 6 in January 1997
08 New York 2 days
- 2 measured
- 1.50″
- none in January 1997
09 Pennsylvania 2 days
- 2 measured
- 1.00″
- none in January 1997
10 South Carolina 2 days
- 2 measured
- 1.75″
- 2 in January 1997
11 Florida 2 days
- 2 measured
- 1.75″
- 4 in January 1997
12 Kentucky 1 day
- 1 measured
- 1.75″
- 2 in January 1997
13 West Virginia 1 day
- 1 measured
- 1.75″
- none in January 1997
14 Tennessee 1 day
- 1 measured
- 1.00″
- 2 in January 1997
15 Virginia 1 day
- 1 measured
- 1.00″
- none in January 1997

The busiest day of the month

Wednesday 21 January 1998

Hail reports: 80
Sources: ×1
Measured: 2.75″
States: 4

Against January 1997

The same month a year earlier, counted the same way; the January 1997 edition has the full table. Jackson, MS led then with 2 days.

23 +5

Metros with a hail day

January 1997 18

22 +10

Days with hail on record nationally

January 1997 12

22 +10

Days with a measured hail report

January 1997 12

311 +22

Hail reports, all sources

January 1997 289

Cite this edition

Titan Weather, Hail days by metro, January 1998. Compiled 25 August 2026. https://titanweather.com/data/1998/01

Compiled 25 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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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, January, in each of the 2 prior years the record reaches, from 1996, divided by those years. A span is compared with itself, never with the country.
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.
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