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Edition 1999-05

Hail days by metro, May 1999.

In May 1999, 93 of 333 metros had at least one day with a hail report within 10 miles of their centre, against 109 in May 1998. Dallas, TX led with 4 days, against its own May mean of 1.3 over 3 prior years of record. Fort Lauderdale, FL was furthest above its own record, at 4 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 31 days with hail on record, against 31 a year earlier.

93

Of 333 metros with a hail day

31

Days with hail on record nationally

100%

Of metro hail days carried a measured report

4.75in

Largest measured, 31 May, KS

Hail days by metro, May 1999

Against each metro's own May on record

Hail days by metro, May 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 May mean Measured share Largest measured Largest detected
01 Dallas, TX 4 +2.7 5 1.3 100% 4 of 4 days measured 1.25″ None detected
02 Fort Worth, TX 4 +3.7 6 0.3 100% 4 of 4 days measured 1.75″ None detected
03 Oklahoma City, OK 4 +2.7 5 1.3 100% 4 of 4 days measured 3.00″ None detected
04 Atlanta, GA 4 +2.3 5 1.7 100% 4 of 4 days measured 2.50″ None detected
05 Tulsa, OK 4 +2.3 6 1.7 100% 4 of 4 days measured 2.50″ None detected
06 Wichita, KS 4 +3.3 6 0.7 100% 4 of 4 days measured 1.75″ None detected
07 Irving, TX 4 +3.3 5 0.7 100% 4 of 4 days measured 1.50″ None detected
08 Fort Lauderdale, FL 4 +4.0 5 0.0 100% 4 of 4 days measured 0.88″ None detected
09 Miami, FL 3 +2.3 3 0.7 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.25″ None detected
10 Arlington, TX 3 +2.7 4 0.3 100% 3 of 3 days measured 2.75″ None detected
11 Cape Coral, FL 3 +3.0 3 0.0 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.75″ None detected
12 Sioux Falls, SD 3 +2.7 3 0.3 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.25″ None detected
13 Amarillo, TX 3 +0.3 4 2.7 100% 3 of 3 days measured 2.75″ None detected
14 Hollywood, FL 3 +3.0 4 0.0 100% 3 of 3 days measured 0.88″ None detected
15 Lakeland, FL 3 +2.3 4 0.7 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.75″ None detected
16 Miami Gardens, FL 3 +3.0 5 0.0 100% 3 of 3 days measured 0.88″ None detected
17 Davie, FL 3 +3.0 4 0.0 100% 3 of 3 days measured 0.88″ None detected
18 Houston, TX 2 +1.3 5 0.7 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
19 Memphis, TN 2 +1.0 6 1.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
20 Omaha, NE 2 −0.3 2 2.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
21 Tampa, FL 2 +1.7 2 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
22 Fort Wayne, IN 2 +1.7 4 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
23 Lubbock, TX 2 +1.0 4 1.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 4.00″ None detected
24 Port St. Lucie, FL 2 +1.7 3 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
25 Hialeah, FL 2 +1.7 3 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
26 Knoxville, TN 2 +1.0 4 1.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
27 Shreveport, LA 2 +2.0 8 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
28 Pasadena, TX 2 +2.0 3 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
29 Gainesville, FL 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.25″ None detected
30 Waco, TX 2 +1.3 5 0.7 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
31 Miramar, FL 2 +2.0 4 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
32 Palm Bay, FL 2 +1.3 2 0.7 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
33 Norman, OK 2 +1.3 3 0.7 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
34 Topeka, KS 2 +1.7 2 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
35 West Palm Beach, FL 2 +1.7 2 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
36 Broken Arrow, OK 2 +1.0 4 1.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
37 Tyler, TX 2 +1.7 6 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
38 Sugar Land, TX 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
39 Sandy Springs, GA 2 +0.3 3 1.7 100% 2 of 2 days measured 2.00″ None detected
40 Wichita Falls, TX 2 +1.3 3 0.7 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.25″ None detected
41 Fayetteville, AR 2 +1.3 2 0.7 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
42 Philadelphia, PA 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
43 Indianapolis, IN 1 +0.3 2 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
44 Denver, CO 1 −0.3 1 1.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
45 Nashville, TN 1 ±0 3 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
46 Colorado Springs, CO 1 ±0 1 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
47 Aurora, CO 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
48 Orlando, FL 1 +1.0 3 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
49 Toledo, OH 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
50 Garland, TX 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
51 Huntsville, AL 1 ±0 2 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
52 Little Rock, AR 1 ±0 6 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
53 Grand Prairie, TX 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 3.00″ None detected
54 Columbus, GA 1 ±0 2 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
55 Overland Park, KS 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
56 Grand Rapids, MI 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
57 Montgomery, AL 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
58 Chattanooga, TN 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
59 Mobile, AL 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
60 Clarksville, TN 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
61 Pembroke Pines, FL 1 +1.0 3 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
62 Fort Collins, CO 1 ±0 1 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
63 Springfield, MO 1 ±0 2 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
64 Killeen, TX 1 +1.0 2 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
65 Denton, TX 1 +0.3 3 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
66 Paterson, NJ 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
67 Savannah, GA 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
68 Olathe, KS 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
69 Mesquite, TX 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
70 Jackson, MS 1 +0.3 3 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
71 Coral Springs, FL 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
72 Lewisville, TX 1 +0.3 2 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
73 Round Rock, TX 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
74 Abilene, TX 1 +0.3 3 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
75 Athens, GA 1 ±0 1 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
76 Pearland, TX 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.75″ None detected
77 Rochester, MN 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
78 Lafayette, LA 1 +0.7 4 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
79 Ann Arbor, MI 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
80 Richardson, TX 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
81 Clearwater, FL 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
82 Odessa, TX 1 +0.3 3 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.75″ None detected
83 Evansville, IN 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
84 Las Cruces, NM 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
85 Pompano Beach, FL 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
86 Allen, TX 1 ±0 2 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
87 South Fulton, GA 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
88 Conroe, TX 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
89 Centennial, CO 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
90 Lee's Summit, MO 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
91 Fishers, IN 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
92 Carmel, IN 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
93 Palm Coast, FL 1 ±0 1 1.0 100% 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 May 1998 beside it. The first 15 of 37; the rest are on their own pages.

  1. 01 Texas 23 days
    • 23 measured
    • 4.50″
    • 11 in May 1998
  2. 02 Florida 19 days
    • 19 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 5 in May 1998
  3. 03 Kansas 15 days
    • 15 measured
    • 4.75″
    • 15 in May 1998
  4. 04 Nebraska 15 days
    • 15 measured
    • 4.50″
    • 15 in May 1998
  5. 05 Colorado 15 days
    • 15 measured
    • 3.75″
    • 15 in May 1998
  6. 06 Oklahoma 14 days
    • 14 measured
    • 4.50″
    • 10 in May 1998
  7. 07 Missouri 12 days
    • 12 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 16 in May 1998
  8. 08 Alabama 11 days
    • 11 measured
    • 2.50″
    • 8 in May 1998
  9. 09 Louisiana 10 days
    • 10 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 4 in May 1998
  10. 10 Georgia 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 2.50″
    • 11 in May 1998
  11. 11 Arkansas 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 14 in May 1998
  12. 12 New Mexico 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 3.00″
    • 2 in May 1998
  13. 13 South Dakota 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 8 in May 1998
  14. 14 Tennessee 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 11 in May 1998
  15. 15 Mississippi 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 5 in May 1998

The busiest day of the month

Sunday 16 May 1999

Hail reports
298
Sources
×1
Measured
4.50″
States
12

Against May 1998

The same month a year earlier, counted the same way; the May 1998 edition has the full table. Wilmington, NC led then with 7 days.

93 −16

Metros with a hail day

May 1998 109

31 ±0

Days with hail on record nationally

May 1998 31

31 ±0

Days with a measured hail report

May 1998 31

2,936 −703

Hail reports, all sources

May 1998 3,639

Cite this edition

Titan Weather, Hail days by metro, May 1999. Compiled 25 August 2026. https://titanweather.com/data/1999/05

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, May, 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.
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