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Edition 2005-10

Hail days by metro, October 2005.

In October 2005, 22 of 333 metros had at least one day with a hail report within 10 miles of their centre, against 27 in October 2004. Fort Worth, TX led with 2 days, against its own October mean of 0.4 over 8 prior years of record. Las Vegas, NV was furthest above its own record, at 2 days against a mean of 0.0. 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 25 days with hail on record, against 25 a year earlier.

22

Of 333 metros with a hail day

25

Days with hail on record nationally

100%

Of metro hail days carried a measured report

2.25in

Largest measured, 19 Oct, KS

Hail days by metro, October 2005

Against each metro's own October on record

Hail days by metro, October 2005: 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 October mean Measured share Largest measured Largest detected
01 Fort Worth, TX 2 +1.6 5 0.4 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
02 El Paso, TX 2 +1.6 3 0.4 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
03 Las Vegas, NV 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
04 North Las Vegas, NV 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
05 Fayetteville, NC 2 +2.0 3 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
06 Chicago, IL 1 +0.8 4 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
07 Tucson, AZ 1 +0.9 4 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
08 Tulsa, OK 1 +0.9 7 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
09 Anaheim, CA 1 +1.0 3 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
10 Greensboro, NC 1 +1.0 2 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
11 Glendale, CA 1 +1.0 2 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
12 Aurora, IL 1 +1.0 4 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
13 Naperville, IL 1 +1.0 2 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
14 Fullerton, CA 1 +1.0 3 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
15 Orange, CA 1 +1.0 4 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
16 Pasadena, CA 1 +1.0 2 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
17 Round Rock, TX 1 +1.0 5 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
18 College Station, TX 1 +1.0 3 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
19 High Point, NC 1 +1.0 2 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
20 Downey, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
21 West Covina, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
22 El Monte, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected

By state

The states by the hail days filed under each by its source, busiest first, with October 2004 beside it. The first 15 of 21; the rest are on their own pages.

  1. 01 Texas 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 14 in October 2004
  2. 02 Arizona 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 1 in October 2004
  3. 03 Oklahoma 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 4 in October 2004
  4. 04 Kansas 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 2.25″
    • 1 in October 2004
  5. 05 Colorado 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 1.00″
    • 1 in October 2004
  6. 06 North Carolina 2 days
    • 2 measured
    • 1.00″
    • 2 in October 2004
  7. 07 Minnesota 2 days
    • 2 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 3 in October 2004
  8. 08 South Carolina 2 days
    • 2 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 1 in October 2004
  9. 09 Iowa 2 days
    • 2 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 5 in October 2004
  10. 10 Missouri 2 days
    • 2 measured
    • 1.00″
    • 6 in October 2004
  11. 11 California 2 days
    • 2 measured
    • 1.25″
    • 2 in October 2004
  12. 12 Nevada 2 days
    • 2 measured
    • 1.00″
    • none in October 2004
  13. 13 Illinois 1 day
    • 1 measured
    • 1.50″
    • 2 in October 2004
  14. 14 Georgia 1 day
    • 1 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 1 in October 2004
  15. 15 Kentucky 1 day
    • 1 measured
    • 1.25″
    • 1 in October 2004

The busiest day of the month

Wednesday 19 October 2005

Hail reports
95
Sources
×2
Measured
2.25″
States
2

Against October 2004

The same month a year earlier, counted the same way; the October 2004 edition has the full table. Midland, TX led then with 3 days.

22 −5

Metros with a hail day

October 2004 27

25 ±0

Days with hail on record nationally

October 2004 25

25 ±0

Days with a measured hail report

October 2004 25

380 −247

Hail reports, all sources

October 2004 627

Cite this edition

Titan Weather, Hail days by metro, October 2005. Compiled 24 August 2026. https://titanweather.com/data/2005/10

Compiled 24 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, October, in each of the 8 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 24 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.

About this record

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