Skip to content
Edition 2000-04

Hail days by metro, April 2000.

In April 2000, 57 of 333 metros had at least one day with a hail report within 10 miles of their centre, against 58 in April 1999. Birmingham, AL led with 3 days, against its own April mean of 0.8 over 4 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 27 days with hail on record, against 28 a year earlier.

57

Of 333 metros with a hail day

27

Days with hail on record nationally

100%

Of metro hail days carried a measured report

4.50in

Largest measured, 2 Apr, AL

Hail days by metro, April 2000

Against each metro's own April on record

Hail days by metro, April 2000: 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 Birmingham, AL 3 +2.3 5 0.8 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.00″ None detected
02 Shreveport, LA 3 +2.0 9 1.0 100% 3 of 3 days measured 4.50″ None detected
03 Chicago, IL 2 +1.8 2 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
04 Houston, TX 2 +1.8 2 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
05 Austin, TX 2 +1.5 3 0.5 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
06 Fort Worth, TX 2 +0.8 8 1.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 3.00″ None detected
07 Tulsa, OK 2 +0.3 5 1.8 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
08 Irvine, CA 2 +2.0 3 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
09 Durham, NC 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
10 Mobile, AL 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
11 Jackson, MS 2 +1.3 4 0.8 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
12 Wilmington, NC 2 +1.8 2 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
13 Springfield, IL 2 +1.8 2 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
14 Beaumont, TX 2 +1.8 2 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
15 South Bend, IN 2 +1.5 2 0.5 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.50″ None detected
16 San Antonio, TX 1 +0.5 3 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.00″ None detected
17 Dallas, TX 1 +0.3 4 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
18 Jacksonville, FL 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
19 Charlotte, NC 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
20 Nashville, TN 1 −0.3 2 1.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
21 Louisville, KY 1 +0.5 2 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
22 Raleigh, NC 1 +0.8 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
23 Virginia Beach, VA 1 +1.0 2 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
24 Long Beach, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
25 St. Louis, MO 1 −0.3 1 1.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
26 Lubbock, TX 1 +0.3 4 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
27 Laredo, TX 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.50″ None detected
28 Irving, TX 1 +0.5 2 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
29 Spokane, WA 1 +0.8 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
30 Richmond, VA 1 +0.8 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
31 Little Rock, AR 1 +0.3 2 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
32 Overland Park, KS 1 +1.0 2 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
33 Montgomery, AL 1 +1.0 4 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.00″ None detected
34 Newport News, VA 1 +0.8 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
35 Cary, NC 1 +0.8 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
36 Fort Collins, CO 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.25″ None detected
37 Murfreesboro, TN 1 +0.5 4 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
38 Killeen, TX 1 +1.0 5 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
39 Joliet, IL 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
40 Olathe, KS 1 +1.0 2 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
41 Columbia, SC 1 +0.3 1 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
42 Norman, OK 1 +0.3 1 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
43 Abilene, TX 1 +0.3 3 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
44 Lafayette, LA 1 +0.3 2 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
45 Independence, MO 1 +0.5 2 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
46 Fairfield, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
47 Broken Arrow, OK 1 ±0 2 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
48 Provo, UT 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
49 Greeley, CO 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
50 Peoria, IL 1 +0.8 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
51 Tyler, TX 1 +0.3 1 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
52 Downey, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
53 Spokane Valley, WA 1 +0.8 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
54 Lee's Summit, MO 1 +0.5 2 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
55 Fishers, IN 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
56 Suffolk, VA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
57 Davenport, IA 1 +0.8 1 0.3 100% 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 April 1999 beside it. The first 15 of 34; the rest are on their own pages.

  1. 01 Texas 16 days
    • 16 measured
    • 4.50″
    • 12 in April 1999
  2. 02 Louisiana 10 days
    • 10 measured
    • 4.50″
    • 3 in April 1999
  3. 03 Oklahoma 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 12 in April 1999
  4. 04 Missouri 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 7 in April 1999
  5. 05 Mississippi 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 8 in April 1999
  6. 06 Illinois 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 7 in April 1999
  7. 07 North Carolina 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 5 in April 1999
  8. 08 Alabama 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 4.50″
    • 11 in April 1999
  9. 09 Kansas 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 7 in April 1999
  10. 10 Florida 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 6 in April 1999
  11. 11 Tennessee 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 6 in April 1999
  12. 12 Georgia 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 8 in April 1999
  13. 13 California 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 1.00″
    • 2 in April 1999
  14. 14 Arkansas 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 11 in April 1999
  15. 15 Indiana 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 6 in April 1999

The busiest day of the month

Wednesday 19 April 2000

Hail reports
292
Sources
×2
Measured
2.50″
States
10

Against April 1999

The same month a year earlier, counted the same way; the April 1999 edition has the full table. Wichita, KS led then with 2 days.

57 −1

Metros with a hail day

April 1999 58

27 −1

Days with hail on record nationally

April 1999 28

27 −1

Days with a measured hail report

April 1999 28

2,851 +1,611

Hail reports, all sources

April 1999 1,240

Cite this edition

Titan Weather, Hail days by metro, April 2000. Compiled 25 August 2026. https://titanweather.com/data/2000/04

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.

Download April 2000 as CSV
The next step

A metro is a region. A claim is an address.

This edition is the record around each metro's centre for one month: enough to rank, to compare with last year, and to cite. None of it says what reached one roof.

Run the address and the same archive is searched at the property: the storm, the date, the measured size, the distance and bearing from the roof, and the federal record each figure came from, in a document that states its own method. Ready in minutes.

Suggestions by Google
  • First reports free
  • No card required
  • Ready in minutes

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 4 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
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.

About this record

Everything here is reproduced from public federal and volunteer weather records, as the agencies and observer networks that publish them released it. Titan Weather compiles the record; it does not observe the weather, and it is not affiliated with any source it cites.

No archive holds everything. Storms cross places where nobody is standing, instruments and observers cover some areas better than others, sources revise their records, and recent reports can take weeks to arrive and settle. Coverage also thins as the years go back: an early quiet stretch may describe who was watching rather than what the weather did. Where this page shows nothing, nothing was found in the sources searched, within the period and area it states. That is not a finding that no weather occurred.

A record sits where its source filed it. Reports made from the ground are commonly logged against a town, a landmark or an offset from one rather than the spot where the measurement was taken, so any distance shown for one carries that source's own location error. Radar detections and warning geometry are instrument-located and do not.

These pages describe the public record near a place or on a date. They do not establish what reached any particular property, and nothing here is insurance, legal or engineering advice.