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Edition 1998-04

Hail days by metro, April 1998.

In April 1998, 56 of 333 metros had at least one day with a hail report within 10 miles of their centre, against 46 in April 1997. Nashville, TN led with 3 days, against its own April mean of 0.5 over 2 prior years of record. Birmingham, AL was furthest above its own record, at 3 days against a mean of 0.0. 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 25 days with hail on record, against 24 a year earlier.

56

Of 333 metros with a hail day

25

Days with hail on record nationally

100%

Of metro hail days carried a measured report

4.50in

Largest measured, 7 Apr, IL

Hail days by metro, April 1998

Against each metro's own April on record

Hail days by metro, April 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 April mean Measured share Largest measured Largest detected
01 Nashville, TN 3 +2.5 3 0.5 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.75″ None detected
02 Augusta, GA 3 +2.5 3 0.5 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.75″ None detected
03 Birmingham, AL 3 +3.0 3 0.0 100% 3 of 3 days measured 2.50″ None detected
04 Tuscaloosa, AL 3 +3.0 4 0.0 100% 3 of 3 days measured 0.75″ None detected
05 Sandy Springs, GA 3 +2.0 4 1.0 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.00″ None detected
06 Memphis, TN 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
07 Atlanta, GA 2 +1.0 2 1.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
08 Kansas City, MO 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
09 Tulsa, OK 2 ±0 2 2.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
10 St. Louis, MO 2 +0.5 2 1.5 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
11 Huntsville, AL 2 +1.0 3 1.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
12 Knoxville, TN 2 +1.0 2 1.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
13 Chattanooga, TN 2 +1.5 2 0.5 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
14 Murfreesboro, TN 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
15 Macon-Bibb County, GA 2 +0.5 2 1.5 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
16 Columbia, SC 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
17 Athens, GA 2 +0.5 2 1.5 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
18 North Charleston, SC 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
19 Independence, MO 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
20 South Fulton, GA 2 +1.5 3 0.5 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
21 Lee's Summit, MO 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
22 Columbus, OH 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
23 Charlotte, NC 1 +1.0 2 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.00″ None detected
24 Indianapolis, IN 1 +0.5 2 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
25 Louisville, KY 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
26 Omaha, NE 1 +1.0 2 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
27 Wichita, KS 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
28 Cleveland, OH 1 ±0 1 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
29 Cincinnati, OH 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.75″ None detected
30 Chesapeake, VA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
31 Winston-Salem, NC 1 +1.0 2 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
32 Garland, TX 1 ±0 2 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
33 Norfolk, VA 1 +1.0 2 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
34 Baton Rouge, LA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
35 Fayetteville, NC 1 +0.5 2 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
36 Little Rock, AR 1 +0.5 2 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
37 Grand Rapids, MI 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
38 Akron, OH 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
39 Clarksville, TN 1 ±0 1 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
40 Charleston, SC 1 +1.0 2 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
41 Kansas City, KS 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
42 Mesquite, TX 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
43 Jackson, MS 1 ±0 1 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
44 Abilene, TX 1 ±0 1 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
45 Wilmington, NC 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
46 Lafayette, LA 1 ±0 2 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
47 Broken Arrow, OK 1 ±0 2 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
48 Richardson, TX 1 ±0 3 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
49 High Point, NC 1 +1.0 2 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
50 Nampa, ID 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
51 Peoria, IL 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
52 Conroe, TX 1 +1.0 3 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
53 Wichita Falls, TX 1 +0.5 3 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
54 Carmel, IN 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
55 Fayetteville, AR 1 −1.0 3 2.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
56 Davenport, IA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected

By state

The states by the hail days filed under each by its source, busiest first, with April 1997 beside it. The first 15 of 35; the rest are on their own pages.

  1. 01 Georgia 10 days
    • 10 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 4 in April 1997
  2. 02 Alabama 10 days
    • 10 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 3 in April 1997
  3. 03 Arkansas 10 days
    • 10 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 5 in April 1997
  4. 04 Tennessee 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 5 in April 1997
  5. 05 Missouri 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 3 in April 1997
  6. 06 Texas 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 14 in April 1997
  7. 07 Kentucky 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 4 in April 1997
  8. 08 Oklahoma 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 3.00″
    • 7 in April 1997
  9. 09 Mississippi 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 4.50″
    • 5 in April 1997
  10. 10 North Carolina 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 2 in April 1997
  11. 11 Illinois 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 4.50″
    • 3 in April 1997
  12. 12 Iowa 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 2 in April 1997
  13. 13 Virginia 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 1 in April 1997
  14. 14 South Carolina 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 3 in April 1997
  15. 15 Ohio 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 1 in April 1997

The busiest day of the month

Wednesday 8 April 1998

Hail reports
326
Sources
×1
Measured
2.75″
States
16

Against April 1997

The same month a year earlier, counted the same way; the April 1997 edition has the full table. Fort Worth, TX led then with 2 days.

56 +10

Metros with a hail day

April 1997 46

25 +1

Days with hail on record nationally

April 1997 24

25 +1

Days with a measured hail report

April 1997 24

1,726 +794

Hail reports, all sources

April 1997 932

Cite this edition

Titan Weather, Hail days by metro, April 1998. Compiled 25 August 2026. https://titanweather.com/data/1998/04

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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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, April, 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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Searched from 1996 to today. Compiled 25 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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