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Edition 2002-03

Hail days by metro, March 2002.

In March 2002, 33 of 333 metros had at least one day with a hail report within 10 miles of their centre, against 29 in March 2001. Fort Worth, TX led with 2 days, against its own March mean of 1.5 over 6 prior years of record. Raleigh, NC was furthest above its own record, at 2 days against a mean of 0.7. 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 18 days with hail on record, against 21 a year earlier.

33

Of 333 metros with a hail day

18

Days with hail on record nationally

100%

Of metro hail days carried a measured report

4.50in

Largest measured, 19 Mar, TX

Hail days by metro, March 2002

Against each metro's own March on record

Hail days by metro, March 2002: 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 March mean Measured share Largest measured Largest detected
01 Fort Worth, TX 2 +0.5 2 1.5 100% 2 of 2 days measured 2.00″ None detected
02 Raleigh, NC 2 +1.3 2 0.7 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
03 Shreveport, LA 2 ±0 2 2.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
04 Tyler, TX 2 +1.2 2 0.8 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
05 San Antonio, TX 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.00″ None detected
06 Charlotte, NC 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
07 Oklahoma City, OK 1 ±0 1 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.00″ None detected
08 Memphis, TN 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
09 Atlanta, GA 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
10 Kansas City, MO 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
11 Tulsa, OK 1 +0.2 1 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
12 Arlington, TX 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
13 Fayetteville, NC 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
14 Little Rock, AR 1 +0.2 1 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
15 Tallahassee, FL 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
16 Grand Prairie, TX 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
17 Augusta, GA 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
18 Overland Park, KS 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
19 Montgomery, AL 1 +0.2 1 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
20 Cary, NC 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
21 Macon-Bibb County, GA 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
22 Kansas City, KS 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
23 Savannah, GA 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
24 Olathe, KS 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
25 Pasadena, TX 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
26 Waco, TX 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
27 Cedar Rapids, IA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
28 Pearland, TX 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
29 Broken Arrow, OK 1 +0.2 1 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
30 League City, TX 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.00″ None detected
31 South Fulton, GA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
32 Sugar Land, TX 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
33 Fayetteville, AR 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected

By state

The states by the hail days filed under each by its source, busiest first, with March 2001 beside it. The first 15 of 18; the rest are on their own pages.

  1. 01 Texas 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 4.50″
    • 8 in March 2001
  2. 02 Arkansas 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 3 in March 2001
  3. 03 Mississippi 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 4 in March 2001
  4. 04 Missouri 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 1.75″
    • none in March 2001
  5. 05 Louisiana 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 4 in March 2001
  6. 06 North Carolina 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 1 in March 2001
  7. 07 Alabama 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 3 in March 2001
  8. 08 Georgia 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 4 in March 2001
  9. 09 Oklahoma 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 4 in March 2001
  10. 10 South Carolina 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 2 in March 2001
  11. 11 Illinois 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 1.00″
    • none in March 2001
  12. 12 Kentucky 2 days
    • 2 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 1 in March 2001
  13. 13 Tennessee 2 days
    • 2 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 2 in March 2001
  14. 14 Indiana 2 days
    • 2 measured
    • 1.50″
    • none in March 2001
  15. 15 Florida 2 days
    • 2 measured
    • 0.88″
    • 10 in March 2001

The busiest day of the month

Friday 29 March 2002

Hail reports
302
Sources
×2
Measured
3.00″
States
11

Against March 2001

The same month a year earlier, counted the same way; the March 2001 edition has the full table. Lakeland, FL led then with 3 days.

33 +4

Metros with a hail day

March 2001 29

18 −3

Days with hail on record nationally

March 2001 21

18 −3

Days with a measured hail report

March 2001 21

1,268 +611

Hail reports, all sources

March 2001 657

Cite this edition

Titan Weather, Hail days by metro, March 2002. Compiled 25 August 2026. https://titanweather.com/data/2002/03

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, March, in each of the 6 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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