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Edition 2003-03

Hail days by metro, March 2003.

In March 2003, 53 of 333 metros had at least one day with a hail report within 10 miles of their centre, against 33 in March 2002. Oklahoma City, OK led with 3 days, against its own March mean of 1.0 over 7 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 23 days with hail on record, against 18 a year earlier.

53

Of 333 metros with a hail day

23

Days with hail on record nationally

100%

Of metro hail days carried a measured report

4.50in

Largest measured, 1 Mar, FL

Hail days by metro, March 2003

Against each metro's own March on record

Hail days by metro, March 2003: 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 Oklahoma City, OK 3 +2.0 3 1.0 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.75″ None detected
02 Jacksonville, FL 2 +1.6 2 0.4 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
03 Indianapolis, IN 2 +1.7 2 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
04 Miami, FL 2 +1.7 2 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
05 St. Louis, MO 2 +1.9 2 0.1 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
06 Huntsville, AL 2 +1.6 2 0.4 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
07 Chattanooga, TN 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
08 Fort Lauderdale, FL 2 +1.9 2 0.1 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.25″ None detected
09 Pembroke Pines, FL 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
10 Macon-Bibb County, GA 2 +1.7 2 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
11 Hollywood, FL 2 +1.9 2 0.1 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.25″ None detected
12 Savannah, GA 2 +1.6 2 0.4 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
13 Gainesville, FL 2 +2.0 4 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 2.00″ None detected
14 Jackson, MS 2 +1.1 2 0.9 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
15 Miramar, FL 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
16 Norman, OK 2 +1.6 2 0.4 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
17 North Charleston, SC 2 +1.9 2 0.1 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.25″ None detected
18 Miami Gardens, FL 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.25″ None detected
19 Davie, FL 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.25″ None detected
20 San Antonio, TX 1 +0.3 2 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
21 Austin, TX 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
22 Kansas City, MO 1 +0.6 2 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
23 Tampa, FL 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
24 Wichita, KS 1 +0.4 1 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
25 Orlando, FL 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
26 Newark, NJ 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
27 Fort Wayne, IN 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
28 Toledo, OH 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
29 Hialeah, FL 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
30 Overland Park, KS 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
31 Mobile, AL 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
32 Springfield, MO 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
33 Killeen, TX 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
34 Paterson, NJ 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
35 Kansas City, KS 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
36 Joliet, IL 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
37 Olathe, KS 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
38 Waco, TX 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
39 Elizabeth, NJ 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
40 Palm Bay, FL 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.50″ None detected
41 Topeka, KS 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
42 College Station, TX 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
43 West Palm Beach, FL 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
44 Wilmington, NC 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
45 Independence, MO 1 +0.9 2 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
46 Springfield, IL 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
47 South Fulton, GA 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
48 Tyler, TX 1 ±0 1 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
49 Conroe, TX 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
50 Lee's Summit, MO 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
51 Fishers, IN 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
52 South Bend, IN 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
53 Carmel, IN 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected

By state

The states by the hail days filed under each by its source, busiest first, with March 2002 beside it. The first 15 of 27; the rest are on their own pages.

  1. 01 Florida 10 days
    • 10 measured
    • 4.50″
    • 2 in March 2002
  2. 02 Georgia 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 5 in March 2002
  3. 03 Alabama 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 4.00″
    • 5 in March 2002
  4. 04 Texas 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 7 in March 2002
  5. 05 Mississippi 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 1.25″
    • 7 in March 2002
  6. 06 Louisiana 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 6 in March 2002
  7. 07 South Carolina 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 1.25″
    • 3 in March 2002
  8. 08 Oklahoma 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 2.25″
    • 4 in March 2002
  9. 09 Missouri 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 6 in March 2002
  10. 10 North Carolina 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 1.50″
    • 5 in March 2002
  11. 11 Illinois 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 3 in March 2002
  12. 12 Arkansas 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 7 in March 2002
  13. 13 Indiana 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 2 in March 2002
  14. 14 Kentucky 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 2 in March 2002
  15. 15 Kansas 2 days
    • 2 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 1 in March 2002

The busiest day of the month

Wednesday 12 March 2003

Hail reports
475
Sources
×2
Measured
2.75″
States
11

Against March 2002

The same month a year earlier, counted the same way; the March 2002 edition has the full table. Fort Worth, TX led then with 2 days.

53 +20

Metros with a hail day

March 2002 33

23 +5

Days with hail on record nationally

March 2002 18

23 +5

Days with a measured hail report

March 2002 18

1,935 +667

Hail reports, all sources

March 2002 1,268

Cite this edition

Titan Weather, Hail days by metro, March 2003. Compiled 25 August 2026. https://titanweather.com/data/2003/03

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 7 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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