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Edition 2004-04

Hail days by metro, April 2004.

In April 2004, 49 of 333 metros had at least one day with a hail report within 10 miles of their centre, against 99 in April 2003. Houston, TX led with 3 days, against its own April mean of 1.1 over 7 prior years of record. Broken Arrow, OK was furthest above its own record, at 3 days against a mean of 0.9. 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.

49

Of 333 metros with a hail day

27

Days with hail on record nationally

100%

Of metro hail days carried a measured report

4.75in

Largest measured, 10 Apr, TX

Hail days by metro, April 2004

Against each metro's own April on record

Hail days by metro, April 2004: 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 Houston, TX 3 +1.9 3 1.1 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.75″ None detected
02 Tulsa, OK 3 +1.7 4 1.3 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.75″ None detected
03 Broken Arrow, OK 3 +2.1 4 0.9 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.75″ None detected
04 Fort Worth, TX 2 +0.9 2 1.1 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
05 Wichita, KS 2 +0.4 2 1.6 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.25″ None detected
06 Des Moines, IA 2 +1.0 2 1.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
07 Rochester, NY 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
08 Sugar Land, TX 2 +1.6 2 0.4 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
09 Wichita Falls, TX 2 +0.7 2 1.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
10 Fayetteville, AR 2 +1.7 3 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
11 Chicago, IL 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
12 San Antonio, TX 1 +0.1 1 0.9 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
13 Dallas, TX 1 +0.4 1 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.00″ None detected
14 Austin, TX 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
15 Oklahoma City, OK 1 +0.4 1 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 3.00″ None detected
16 Nashville, TN 1 −0.4 2 1.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
17 Detroit, MI 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
18 Memphis, TN 1 −0.1 1 1.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
19 Minneapolis, MN 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
20 Arlington, TX 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.00″ None detected
21 Huntsville, AL 1 +0.4 1 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
22 Frisco, TX 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
23 Sioux Falls, SD 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.75″ None detected
24 Amarillo, TX 1 −0.1 1 1.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
25 Grand Prairie, TX 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.00″ None detected
26 Columbus, GA 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
27 Montgomery, AL 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
28 Akron, OH 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
29 Shreveport, LA 1 ±0 1 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
30 Denton, TX 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
31 Macon-Bibb County, GA 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
32 Joliet, IL 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
33 Pasadena, TX 1 +0.4 1 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
34 Rockford, IL 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
35 Midland, TX 1 +0.4 2 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
36 Warren, MI 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
37 Lewisville, TX 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
38 Sterling Heights, MI 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
39 Round Rock, TX 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
40 Norman, OK 1 +0.4 1 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
41 Topeka, KS 1 −0.1 1 1.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
42 Rochester, MN 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
43 North Charleston, SC 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
44 Elgin, IL 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
45 Beaumont, TX 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
46 Tuscaloosa, AL 1 +0.1 1 0.9 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
47 Tyler, TX 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
48 Conroe, TX 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
49 Dearborn, MI 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 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 2003 beside it. The first 15 of 33; the rest are on their own pages.

  1. 01 Texas 21 days
    • 21 measured
    • 4.75″
    • 18 in April 2003
  2. 02 Oklahoma 12 days
    • 12 measured
    • 4.25″
    • 15 in April 2003
  3. 03 New Mexico 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 3.00″
    • 1 in April 2003
  4. 04 Arkansas 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 9 in April 2003
  5. 05 Kansas 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 13 in April 2003
  6. 06 Missouri 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 3.00″
    • 11 in April 2003
  7. 07 Iowa 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 3 in April 2003
  8. 08 Alabama 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 2.50″
    • 5 in April 2003
  9. 09 Mississippi 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 7 in April 2003
  10. 10 Minnesota 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 2 in April 2003
  11. 11 Louisiana 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 7 in April 2003
  12. 12 South Dakota 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 1 in April 2003
  13. 13 New York 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 1.75″
    • none in April 2003
  14. 14 Michigan 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 5 in April 2003
  15. 15 Florida 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 0.88″
    • 7 in April 2003

The busiest day of the month

Wednesday 21 April 2004

Hail reports
470
Sources
×2
Measured
3.00″
States
9

Against April 2003

The same month a year earlier, counted the same way; the April 2003 edition has the full table. Houston, TX led then with 4 days.

49 −50

Metros with a hail day

April 2003 99

27 −1

Days with hail on record nationally

April 2003 28

27 −1

Days with a measured hail report

April 2003 28

3,632 −1,335

Hail reports, all sources

April 2003 4,967

Cite this edition

Titan Weather, Hail days by metro, April 2004. Compiled 25 August 2026. https://titanweather.com/data/2004/04

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 7 prior years the record reaches, from 1997, 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 1997 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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