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Edition 2010-10

Hail days by metro, October 2010.

In October 2010, 45 of 333 metros had at least one day with a hail report within 10 miles of their centre, against 7 in October 2009. Birmingham, AL led with 3 days, against its own October mean of 0.1 over 14 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 24 days with hail on record, against 21 a year earlier.

45

Of 333 metros with a hail day

24

Days with hail on record nationally

100%

Of metro hail days carried a measured report

3.00in

Largest measured, 5 Oct, AZ

Hail days by metro, October 2010

Against each metro's own October on record

Hail days by metro, October 2010: 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 Birmingham, AL 3 +2.9 7 0.1 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.00″ None detected
02 Phoenix, AZ 2 +2.0 5 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 3.00″ None detected
03 Glendale, AZ 2 +2.0 8 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 3.00″ None detected
04 Grand Rapids, MI 2 +1.8 6 0.2 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.25″ None detected
05 Tyler, TX 2 +1.9 4 0.1 100% 2 of 2 days measured 2.00″ None detected
06 New York, NY 1 +1.0 2 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
07 Chicago, IL 1 +0.6 4 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
08 Indianapolis, IN 1 +0.9 3 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
09 Oklahoma City, OK 1 +0.5 3 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
10 El Paso, TX 1 +0.6 3 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
11 Albuquerque, NM 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
12 Fresno, CA 1 +0.9 4 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
13 Mesa, AZ 1 +0.9 6 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
14 Raleigh, NC 1 +1.0 3 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
15 Henderson, NV 1 +1.0 4 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
16 Cincinnati, OH 1 +0.9 4 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
17 Newark, NJ 1 +1.0 2 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
18 Durham, NC 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
19 Jersey City, NJ 1 +1.0 2 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
20 St. Louis, MO 1 +0.9 7 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
21 Chandler, AZ 1 +0.8 4 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 3.00″ None detected
22 Gilbert, AZ 1 +0.9 7 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
23 Lubbock, TX 1 +1.0 5 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
24 Scottsdale, AZ 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.50″ None detected
25 Huntsville, AL 1 +1.0 5 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
26 Little Rock, AR 1 +1.0 6 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
27 Oxnard, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
28 Tempe, AZ 1 +0.8 3 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 3.00″ None detected
29 Shreveport, LA 1 +0.9 6 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
30 Killeen, TX 1 +1.0 2 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
31 Paterson, NJ 1 +1.0 3 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
32 Bridgeport, CT 1 +1.0 3 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
33 Waco, TX 1 +0.9 3 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
34 Victorville, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
35 Elizabeth, NJ 1 +1.0 2 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
36 New Haven, CT 1 +1.0 2 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
37 Clovis, CA 1 +0.9 4 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
38 Simi Valley, CA 1 +1.0 2 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
39 Thousand Oaks, CA 1 +1.0 2 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
40 North Charleston, SC 1 +1.0 7 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
41 Evansville, IN 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
42 Peoria, IL 1 +1.0 4 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
43 San Buenaventura (Ventura), CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
44 Fishers, IN 1 +0.9 5 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
45 Hesperia, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected

By state

The states by the hail days filed under each by its source, busiest first, with October 2009 beside it. The first 15 of 38; the rest are on their own pages.

  1. 01 Texas 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 3.00″
    • 7 in October 2009
  2. 02 California 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 1.25″
    • 1 in October 2009
  3. 03 Arizona 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 3.00″
    • none in October 2009
  4. 04 Alabama 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 1 in October 2009
  5. 05 New Mexico 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 1 in October 2009
  6. 06 North Carolina 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 1.00″
    • none in October 2009
  7. 07 Oklahoma 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 4 in October 2009
  8. 08 Georgia 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 2 in October 2009
  9. 09 Michigan 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 0.50″
    • 1 in October 2009
  10. 10 South Carolina 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 2.75″
    • none in October 2009
  11. 11 Louisiana 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 2 in October 2009
  12. 12 Illinois 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 1.00″
    • 2 in October 2009
  13. 13 Nebraska 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 1.00″
    • none in October 2009
  14. 14 Indiana 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 1 in October 2009
  15. 15 Missouri 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 1.00″
    • 2 in October 2009

The busiest day of the month

Sunday 24 October 2010

Hail reports
534
Sources
×3
Measured
3.00″
States
13

Against October 2009

The same month a year earlier, counted the same way; the October 2009 edition has the full table. Fort Worth, TX led then with 1 day.

45 +38

Metros with a hail day

October 2009 7

24 +3

Days with hail on record nationally

October 2009 21

24 +3

Days with a measured hail report

October 2009 21

1,575 +1,281

Hail reports, all sources

October 2009 294

Cite this edition

Titan Weather, Hail days by metro, October 2010. Compiled 25 August 2026. https://titanweather.com/data/2010/10

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, October, in each of the 14 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.

About this record

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