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Edition 2002-05

Hail days by metro, May 2002.

In May 2002, 84 of 333 metros had at least one day with a hail report within 10 miles of their centre, against 89 in May 2001. Atlanta, GA led with 4 days, against its own May mean of 1.8 over 6 prior years of record. Wichita, KS was furthest above its own record, at 4 days against a mean of 1.3. 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 30 days with hail on record, against 31 a year earlier.

84

Of 333 metros with a hail day

30

Days with hail on record nationally

100%

Of metro hail days carried a measured report

4.50in

Largest measured, 1 May, KY

Hail days by metro, May 2002

Against each metro's own May on record

Hail days by metro, May 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 May mean Measured share Largest measured Largest detected
01 Atlanta, GA 4 +2.2 5 1.8 100% 4 of 4 days measured 1.00″ None detected
02 Wichita, KS 4 +2.7 5 1.3 100% 4 of 4 days measured 1.75″ None detected
03 Amarillo, TX 4 +1.5 6 2.5 100% 4 of 4 days measured 1.75″ None detected
04 Kansas City, MO 3 +2.3 7 0.7 100% 3 of 3 days measured 0.88″ None detected
05 Tulsa, OK 3 +0.8 4 2.2 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.00″ None detected
06 Lubbock, TX 3 +1.3 4 1.7 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.75″ None detected
07 Topeka, KS 3 +2.2 5 0.8 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.75″ None detected
08 Broken Arrow, OK 3 +1.7 4 1.3 100% 3 of 3 days measured 3.50″ None detected
09 Odessa, TX 3 +2.0 3 1.0 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.75″ None detected
10 Baltimore, MD 2 +1.5 2 0.5 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
11 Omaha, NE 2 ±0 3 2.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
12 Pittsburgh, PA 2 +1.7 2 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
13 Sioux Falls, SD 2 +1.2 4 0.8 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
14 Fort Lauderdale, FL 2 +1.2 2 0.8 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
15 Shreveport, LA 2 +1.0 5 1.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
16 Springfield, MO 2 +1.0 5 1.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
17 Hollywood, FL 2 +1.3 2 0.7 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
18 Kansas City, KS 2 +0.7 5 1.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
19 Gainesville, FL 2 +1.5 2 0.5 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
20 Coral Springs, FL 2 +1.8 2 0.2 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
21 Columbia, MO 2 +1.5 2 0.5 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
22 Abilene, TX 2 +1.3 4 0.7 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
23 Independence, MO 2 +2.0 4 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
24 Evansville, IN 2 +1.5 3 0.5 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
25 Pompano Beach, FL 2 +1.8 2 0.2 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
26 Davie, FL 2 +1.3 2 0.7 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
27 Sandy Springs, GA 2 +0.5 3 1.5 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
28 Lee's Summit, MO 2 +1.3 4 0.7 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
29 Fishers, IN 2 +1.7 2 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
30 Houston, TX 1 −0.2 1 1.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
31 Fort Worth, TX 1 −0.2 5 1.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
32 Columbus, OH 1 +0.2 2 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
33 Oklahoma City, OK 1 −1.0 2 2.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
34 Nashville, TN 1 +0.3 2 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
35 Washington, DC 1 +0.2 2 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
36 Memphis, TN 1 +0.2 4 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
37 Fresno, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
38 Minneapolis, MN 1 +0.3 2 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
39 Tampa, FL 1 +0.5 3 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
40 New Orleans, LA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
41 Orlando, FL 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
42 Lexington-Fayette, KY 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
43 Corpus Christi, TX 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
44 St. Paul, MN 1 +0.3 2 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
45 Lincoln, NE 1 +0.2 3 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
46 Fort Wayne, IN 1 +0.3 2 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
47 Toledo, OH 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.50″ None detected
48 Irving, TX 1 −0.2 2 1.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
49 Chesapeake, VA 1 +0.5 2 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
50 Norfolk, VA 1 +0.5 2 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
51 McKinney, TX 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
52 Worcester, MA 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
53 Tallahassee, FL 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
54 Augusta, GA 1 +0.8 2 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
55 Akron, OH 1 +1.0 2 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
56 Macon-Bibb County, GA 1 ±0 3 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
57 Paterson, NJ 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
58 Alexandria, VA 1 +0.3 2 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
59 Bridgeport, CT 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
60 Columbia, SC 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
61 Midland, TX 1 +0.2 1 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
62 Stamford, CT 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
63 Cedar Rapids, IA 1 +0.3 2 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
64 Lewisville, TX 1 +0.2 1 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
65 Fargo, ND 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
66 Carrollton, TX 1 +0.3 2 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
67 Round Rock, TX 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
68 Clovis, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
69 Wilmington, NC 1 −1.2 2 2.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
70 Rochester, MN 1 +0.2 2 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
71 Lakeland, FL 1 −0.2 2 1.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
72 Hartford, CT 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
73 Manchester, NH 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
74 Waterbury, CT 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.00″ None detected
75 Springfield, IL 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
76 Allen, TX 1 −0.3 1 1.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
77 New Braunfels, TX 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
78 South Fulton, GA 1 +0.3 2 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
79 Peoria, IL 1 +0.8 2 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
80 Tyler, TX 1 +0.5 3 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
81 Sugar Land, TX 1 +0.5 2 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
82 Green Bay, WI 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
83 Fayetteville, AR 1 ±0 3 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
84 Davenport, IA 1 +0.2 1 0.8 100% 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 May 2001 beside it. The first 15 of 41; the rest are on their own pages.

  1. 01 Texas 20 days
    • 20 measured
    • 4.50″
    • 23 in May 2001
  2. 02 Kansas 16 days
    • 16 measured
    • 4.50″
    • 17 in May 2001
  3. 03 Oklahoma 12 days
    • 12 measured
    • 4.50″
    • 15 in May 2001
  4. 04 Illinois 12 days
    • 12 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 6 in May 2001
  5. 05 Missouri 11 days
    • 11 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 9 in May 2001
  6. 06 Nebraska 11 days
    • 11 measured
    • 4.00″
    • 9 in May 2001
  7. 07 Minnesota 10 days
    • 10 measured
    • 2.50″
    • 9 in May 2001
  8. 08 Iowa 10 days
    • 10 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 8 in May 2001
  9. 09 Georgia 10 days
    • 10 measured
    • 2.50″
    • 9 in May 2001
  10. 10 Arkansas 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 10 in May 2001
  11. 11 Alabama 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 12 in May 2001
  12. 12 Virginia 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 3.00″
    • 8 in May 2001
  13. 13 Ohio 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 2.50″
    • 8 in May 2001
  14. 14 Wisconsin 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 8 in May 2001
  15. 15 Indiana 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 7 in May 2001

The busiest day of the month

Sunday 5 May 2002

Hail reports
644
Sources
×2
Measured
3.00″
States
10

Against May 2001

The same month a year earlier, counted the same way; the May 2001 edition has the full table. Lubbock, TX led then with 5 days.

84 −5

Metros with a hail day

May 2001 89

30 −1

Days with hail on record nationally

May 2001 31

30 −1

Days with a measured hail report

May 2001 31

6,123 +847

Hail reports, all sources

May 2001 5,276

Cite this edition

Titan Weather, Hail days by metro, May 2002. Compiled 25 August 2026. https://titanweather.com/data/2002/05

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 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.
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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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