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Edition 1999-04

Hail days by metro, April 1999.

In April 1999, 58 of 333 metros had at least one day with a hail report within 10 miles of their centre, against 56 in April 1998. Wichita, KS led with 2 days, against its own April mean of 0.7 over 3 prior years of record. Orlando, FL was furthest above its own record, at 2 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 28 days with hail on record, against 25 a year earlier.

58

Of 333 metros with a hail day

28

Days with hail on record nationally

100%

Of metro hail days carried a measured report

3.50in

Largest measured, 23 Apr, VA

Hail days by metro, April 1999

Against each metro's own April on record

Hail days by metro, April 1999: 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 Wichita, KS 2 +1.3 2 0.7 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
02 Orlando, FL 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
03 Fort Wayne, IN 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
04 Lubbock, TX 2 +1.7 2 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
05 Pembroke Pines, FL 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
06 Miramar, FL 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
07 Miami Gardens, FL 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
08 Jacksonville, FL 1 +0.7 3 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
09 Fort Worth, TX 1 −0.3 2 1.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
10 Columbus, OH 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
11 Charlotte, NC 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
12 Nashville, TN 1 −0.3 2 1.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.75″ None detected
13 Louisville, KY 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
14 Memphis, TN 1 +0.3 4 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
15 Tulsa, OK 1 −1.0 2 2.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
16 Arlington, TX 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
17 Pittsburgh, PA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
18 Lincoln, NE 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
19 St. Petersburg, FL 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
20 Irving, TX 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
21 Port St. Lucie, FL 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
22 Richmond, VA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
23 Frisco, TX 1 −0.3 2 1.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
24 Santa Clarita, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
25 Hialeah, FL 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
26 Little Rock, AR 1 +0.3 5 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
27 Amarillo, TX 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
28 Grand Prairie, TX 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
29 Knoxville, TN 1 −0.3 2 1.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
30 Brownsville, TX 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
31 Fort Lauderdale, FL 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
32 Newport News, VA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
33 Shreveport, LA 1 ±0 6 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
34 Aurora, IL 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
35 Denton, TX 1 +0.3 2 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
36 Alexandria, VA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.50″ None detected
37 Hollywood, FL 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
38 Naperville, IL 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
39 Visalia, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
40 Waco, TX 1 +0.3 3 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
41 Columbia, SC 1 +0.3 2 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
42 Midland, TX 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
43 Hampton, VA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
44 Lewisville, TX 1 ±0 1 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
45 Norman, OK 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
46 College Station, TX 1 +0.7 3 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
47 Simi Valley, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
48 Thousand Oaks, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
49 Lakeland, FL 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
50 North Charleston, SC 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
51 Billings, MT 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
52 Broken Arrow, OK 1 ±0 2 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
53 Odessa, TX 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
54 Elgin, IL 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
55 Tyler, TX 1 +0.3 4 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
56 Conroe, TX 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
57 Davie, FL 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
58 South Bend, IN 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected

By state

The states by the hail days filed under each by its source, busiest first, with April 1998 beside it. The first 15 of 34; the rest are on their own pages.

  1. 01 Oklahoma 12 days
    • 12 measured
    • 3.00″
    • 7 in April 1998
  2. 02 Texas 12 days
    • 12 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 8 in April 1998
  3. 03 Arkansas 11 days
    • 11 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 10 in April 1998
  4. 04 Alabama 11 days
    • 11 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 10 in April 1998
  5. 05 Georgia 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 10 in April 1998
  6. 06 Mississippi 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 7 in April 1998
  7. 07 Kentucky 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 8 in April 1998
  8. 08 Kansas 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 3 in April 1998
  9. 09 Missouri 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 9 in April 1998
  10. 10 Illinois 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 6 in April 1998
  11. 11 Indiana 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 5 in April 1998
  12. 12 Iowa 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 6 in April 1998
  13. 13 Florida 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 4 in April 1998
  14. 14 Tennessee 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 9 in April 1998
  15. 15 South Carolina 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 5 in April 1998

The busiest day of the month

Wednesday 21 April 1999

Hail reports
129
Sources
×1
Measured
2.75″
States
8

Against April 1998

The same month a year earlier, counted the same way; the April 1998 edition has the full table. Nashville, TN led then with 3 days.

58 +2

Metros with a hail day

April 1998 56

28 +3

Days with hail on record nationally

April 1998 25

28 +3

Days with a measured hail report

April 1998 25

1,240 −486

Hail reports, all sources

April 1998 1,726

Cite this edition

Titan Weather, Hail days by metro, April 1999. Compiled 25 August 2026. https://titanweather.com/data/1999/04

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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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 3 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.
The record
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