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Edition 2002-04

Hail days by metro, April 2002.

In April 2002, 62 of 333 metros had at least one day with a hail report within 10 miles of their centre, against 54 in April 2001. Springfield, MO led with 3 days, against its own April mean of 0.3 over 6 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.

62

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, 7 Apr, TX

Hail days by metro, April 2002

Against each metro's own April on record

Hail days by metro, April 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 April mean Measured share Largest measured Largest detected
01 Springfield, MO 3 +2.7 3 0.3 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.00″ None detected
02 Murfreesboro, TN 3 +2.5 3 0.5 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.75″ None detected
03 Wichita Falls, TX 3 +2.5 3 0.5 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.75″ None detected
04 San Antonio, TX 2 +1.2 3 0.8 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
05 Fort Worth, TX 2 +0.8 4 1.2 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
06 Memphis, TN 2 +1.5 3 0.5 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
07 Kansas City, MO 2 +1.2 4 0.8 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
08 Tampa, FL 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
09 Lincoln, NE 2 +1.5 2 0.5 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
10 Sioux Falls, SD 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
11 Amarillo, TX 2 +1.3 2 0.7 100% 2 of 2 days measured 2.00″ None detected
12 Overland Park, KS 2 +1.2 4 0.8 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
13 Chattanooga, TN 2 +1.5 2 0.5 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
14 Kansas City, KS 2 +1.5 3 0.5 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
15 Abilene, TX 2 +1.3 2 0.7 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
16 Dallas, TX 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
17 Jacksonville, FL 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
18 Nashville, TN 1 −0.3 1 1.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
19 Washington, DC 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
20 Omaha, NE 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
21 Virginia Beach, VA 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
22 Minneapolis, MN 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
23 Arlington, TX 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
24 Wichita, KS 1 −0.2 1 1.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
25 Cincinnati, OH 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
26 Newark, NJ 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
27 St. Paul, MN 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.00″ None detected
28 Jersey City, NJ 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
29 Madison, WI 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
30 Buffalo, NY 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
31 Fort Wayne, IN 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
32 Lubbock, TX 1 ±0 1 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
33 Irving, TX 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
34 Chesapeake, VA 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
35 Norfolk, VA 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
36 Huntsville, AL 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
37 Des Moines, IA 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
38 Salt Lake City, UT 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
39 Knoxville, TN 1 +0.2 1 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
40 Grand Rapids, MI 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
41 Montgomery, AL 1 +0.8 2 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
42 Akron, OH 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
43 Shreveport, LA 1 −0.2 3 1.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
44 Killeen, TX 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
45 Macon-Bibb County, GA 1 +0.2 2 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
46 Paterson, NJ 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
47 Alexandria, VA 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
48 Olathe, KS 1 +0.2 3 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
49 Rockford, IL 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
50 Elizabeth, NJ 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
51 Carrollton, TX 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
52 Topeka, KS 1 ±0 2 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
53 Wilmington, NC 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
54 Rochester, MN 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
55 Lakeland, FL 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
56 Independence, MO 1 −0.2 2 1.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
57 Evansville, IN 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
58 Peoria, IL 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
59 Sandy Springs, GA 1 +0.2 1 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
60 Lee's Summit, MO 1 −0.2 2 1.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
61 Palm Coast, FL 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
62 Fayetteville, AR 1 +0.2 2 0.8 100% 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 2001 beside it. The first 15 of 38; the rest are on their own pages.

  1. 01 Texas 15 days
    • 15 measured
    • 4.50″
    • 10 in April 2001
  2. 02 Missouri 14 days
    • 14 measured
    • 4.50″
    • 11 in April 2001
  3. 03 Illinois 11 days
    • 11 measured
    • 3.50″
    • 7 in April 2001
  4. 04 Arkansas 11 days
    • 11 measured
    • 4.50″
    • 3 in April 2001
  5. 05 Kansas 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 14 in April 2001
  6. 06 Oklahoma 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 4.50″
    • 9 in April 2001
  7. 07 Kentucky 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 3 in April 2001
  8. 08 North Carolina 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 2 in April 2001
  9. 09 Florida 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 3 in April 2001
  10. 10 Wisconsin 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 3.00″
    • 5 in April 2001
  11. 11 Ohio 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 6 in April 2001
  12. 12 Minnesota 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 7 in April 2001
  13. 13 Nebraska 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 13 in April 2001
  14. 14 Indiana 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 3 in April 2001
  15. 15 Iowa 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 10 in April 2001

The busiest day of the month

Thursday 18 April 2002

Hail reports
742
Sources
×2
Measured
3.00″
States
11

Against April 2001

The same month a year earlier, counted the same way; the April 2001 edition has the full table. Topeka, KS led then with 5 days.

62 +8

Metros with a hail day

April 2001 54

27 −1

Days with hail on record nationally

April 2001 28

27 −1

Days with a measured hail report

April 2001 28

4,612 +658

Hail reports, all sources

April 2001 3,954

Cite this edition

Titan Weather, Hail days by metro, April 2002. Compiled 25 August 2026. https://titanweather.com/data/2002/04

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 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
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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