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Edition 2009-03

Hail days by metro, March 2009.

In March 2009, 59 of 333 metros had at least one day with a hail report within 10 miles of their centre, against 57 in March 2008. Austin, TX led with 3 days, against its own March mean of 0.3 over 13 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 23 a year earlier.

59

Of 333 metros with a hail day

23

Days with hail on record nationally

100%

Of metro hail days carried a measured report

4.25in

Largest measured, 23 Mar, NE

Hail days by metro, March 2009

Against each metro's own March on record

Hail days by metro, March 2009: 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 Austin, TX 3 +2.7 4 0.3 100% 3 of 3 days measured 3.50″ None detected
02 Houston, TX 2 +1.6 2 0.4 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
03 Fort Wayne, IN 2 +1.9 2 0.1 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
04 Norman, OK 2 +1.4 2 0.6 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
05 Broken Arrow, OK 2 +1.1 2 0.9 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
06 Beaumont, TX 2 +2.0 3 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.50″ None detected
07 Conroe, TX 2 +1.8 2 0.2 100% 2 of 2 days measured 2.75″ None detected
08 New York, NY 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
09 Philadelphia, PA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
10 San Antonio, TX 1 +0.2 2 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
11 Dallas, TX 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
12 Fort Worth, TX 1 +0.1 2 0.9 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.00″ None detected
13 Indianapolis, IN 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
14 Seattle, WA 1 +0.9 2 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
15 Kansas City, MO 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
16 Omaha, NE 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
17 Minneapolis, MN 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
18 Tulsa, OK 1 +0.2 1 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
19 Orlando, FL 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
20 Corpus Christi, TX 1 +0.9 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
21 Lincoln, NE 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
22 Plano, TX 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
23 Irving, TX 1 +0.9 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
24 Huntsville, AL 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
25 Yonkers, NY 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
26 Montgomery, AL 1 +0.2 3 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
27 Akron, OH 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
28 Mobile, AL 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
29 Clarksville, TN 1 +0.9 3 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
30 Aurora, IL 1 +0.9 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
31 Springfield, MO 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
32 Murfreesboro, TN 1 +0.9 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
33 Paterson, NJ 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
34 Charleston, SC 1 +0.8 2 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
35 Kansas City, KS 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
36 Bellevue, WA 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
37 Joliet, IL 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
38 Naperville, IL 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
39 Savannah, GA 1 +0.5 2 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
40 Pasadena, TX 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
41 Elizabeth, NJ 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
42 Lewisville, TX 1 +0.5 2 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
43 Carrollton, TX 1 +0.6 2 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
44 Round Rock, TX 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 3.50″ None detected
45 Columbia, MO 1 +0.6 2 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
46 Pearland, TX 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
47 Topeka, KS 1 +0.4 1 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
48 Allentown, PA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
49 North Charleston, SC 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
50 Independence, MO 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
51 Richardson, TX 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
52 Evansville, IN 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
53 Waterbury, CT 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
54 New Braunfels, TX 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
55 Peoria, IL 1 +0.9 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
56 Tyler, TX 1 +0.2 3 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
57 Sugar Land, TX 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
58 South Bend, IN 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
59 Davenport, IA 1 +0.9 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected

By state

The states by the hail days filed under each by its source, busiest first, with March 2008 beside it. The first 15 of 34; the rest are on their own pages.

  1. 01 Texas 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 3.50″
    • 12 in March 2008
  2. 02 Oklahoma 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 8 in March 2008
  3. 03 Kansas 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 4 in March 2008
  4. 04 Missouri 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 8 in March 2008
  5. 05 Alabama 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 4 in March 2008
  6. 06 Washington 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 0.75″
    • 5 in March 2008
  7. 07 Louisiana 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 4.00″
    • 5 in March 2008
  8. 08 Mississippi 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 9 in March 2008
  9. 09 Indiana 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 1.00″
    • 3 in March 2008
  10. 10 Idaho 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 0.50″
    • 2 in March 2008
  11. 11 Illinois 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 1.50″
    • 4 in March 2008
  12. 12 Iowa 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 1.50″
    • 3 in March 2008
  13. 13 Arkansas 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 1.00″
    • 8 in March 2008
  14. 14 Florida 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 2 in March 2008
  15. 15 California 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 1.25″
    • 1 in March 2008

The busiest day of the month

Monday 23 March 2009

Hail reports
469
Sources
×3
Measured
4.25″
States
6

Against March 2008

The same month a year earlier, counted the same way; the March 2008 edition has the full table. Atlanta, GA led then with 3 days.

59 +2

Metros with a hail day

March 2008 57

23 ±0

Days with hail on record nationally

March 2008 23

23 ±0

Days with a measured hail report

March 2008 23

2,783 −770

Hail reports, all sources

March 2008 3,553

Cite this edition

Titan Weather, Hail days by metro, March 2009. Compiled 25 August 2026. https://titanweather.com/data/2009/03

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 13 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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