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Edition 2012-03

Hail days by metro, March 2012.

In March 2012, 85 of 333 metros had at least one day with a hail report within 10 miles of their centre, against 68 in March 2011. Louisville, KY led with 4 days, against its own March mean of 0.2 over 16 prior years of record. Evansville, IN was furthest above its own record, at 4 days against a mean of 0.1. 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 30 days with hail on record, against 27 a year earlier.

85

Of 333 metros with a hail day

30

Days with hail on record nationally

100%

Of metro hail days carried a measured report

4.50in

Largest measured, 29 Mar, OK

Hail days by metro, March 2012

Against each metro's own March on record

Hail days by metro, March 2012: 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 Louisville, KY 4 +3.8 4 0.2 100% 4 of 4 days measured 2.50″ None detected
02 St. Louis, MO 4 +3.5 5 0.5 100% 4 of 4 days measured 1.00″ None detected
03 Grand Rapids, MI 4 +3.8 4 0.2 100% 4 of 4 days measured 1.00″ None detected
04 Chattanooga, TN 4 +3.8 4 0.3 100% 4 of 4 days measured 2.50″ None detected
05 Columbia, MO 4 +3.5 4 0.5 100% 4 of 4 days measured 1.00″ None detected
06 Evansville, IN 4 +3.9 4 0.1 100% 4 of 4 days measured 1.75″ None detected
07 Chicago, IL 3 +2.8 3 0.2 100% 3 of 3 days measured 0.25″ None detected
08 Columbus, OH 3 +2.9 3 0.1 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.25″ None detected
09 Nashville, TN 3 +2.6 4 0.4 100% 3 of 3 days measured 2.00″ None detected
10 Cincinnati, OH 3 +2.9 3 0.1 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.00″ None detected
11 Naperville, IL 3 +2.6 3 0.4 100% 3 of 3 days measured 0.25″ None detected
12 Topeka, KS 3 +2.4 4 0.6 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.00″ None detected
13 Jacksonville, FL 2 +1.4 2 0.6 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
14 Indianapolis, IN 2 +1.6 2 0.4 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
15 Raleigh, NC 2 +1.4 2 0.6 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
16 Wichita, KS 2 +1.6 3 0.4 100% 2 of 2 days measured 2.50″ None detected
17 Urban Honolulu, HI 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 4.25″ None detected
18 Lexington-Fayette, KY 2 +1.8 2 0.2 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
19 Chandler, AZ 2 +1.9 2 0.1 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.50″ None detected
20 Gilbert, AZ 2 +1.9 2 0.1 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.50″ None detected
21 Fort Wayne, IN 2 +1.8 2 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
22 Toledo, OH 2 +1.8 2 0.2 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
23 Laredo, TX 2 +1.9 2 0.1 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
24 Winston-Salem, NC 2 +1.9 2 0.1 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
25 Richmond, VA 2 +2.0 3 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
26 Huntsville, AL 2 +1.4 4 0.6 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
27 Knoxville, TN 2 +1.8 3 0.2 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
28 Clarksville, TN 2 +1.8 2 0.2 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
29 Cary, NC 2 +1.6 2 0.4 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
30 Aurora, IL 2 +1.7 2 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.25″ None detected
31 Murfreesboro, TN 2 +1.8 2 0.2 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
32 Joliet, IL 2 +1.6 2 0.4 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.50″ None detected
33 Dayton, OH 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.25″ None detected
34 Ann Arbor, MI 2 +1.9 2 0.1 100% 2 of 2 days measured 2.75″ None detected
35 Springfield, IL 2 +1.6 3 0.4 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
36 Lansing, MI 2 +1.9 2 0.1 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.25″ None detected
37 Tuscaloosa, AL 2 +1.4 2 0.6 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
38 Fishers, IN 2 +1.8 2 0.2 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
39 Carmel, IN 2 +1.9 2 0.1 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
40 Phoenix, AZ 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
41 San Antonio, TX 1 +0.2 3 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
42 Austin, TX 1 +0.5 2 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
43 Charlotte, NC 1 +0.8 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
44 Oklahoma City, OK 1 +0.2 2 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
45 Detroit, MI 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
46 Fresno, CA 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
47 Mesa, AZ 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
48 Atlanta, GA 1 +0.6 2 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
49 Cleveland, OH 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
50 Corpus Christi, TX 1 +0.8 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
51 Pittsburgh, PA 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
52 Greensboro, NC 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
53 Durham, NC 1 +0.8 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
54 Lubbock, TX 1 +0.8 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
55 Glendale, AZ 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
56 Scottsdale, AZ 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
57 Tacoma, WA 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
58 Des Moines, IA 1 +0.4 1 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
59 Tallahassee, FL 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
60 Birmingham, AL 1 +0.4 1 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
61 Tempe, AZ 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
62 Macon-Bibb County, GA 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
63 Springfield, MA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
64 McAllen, TX 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.75″ None detected
65 Rockford, IL 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
66 Gainesville, FL 1 +0.8 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
67 Visalia, CA 1 +0.8 2 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
68 Waco, TX 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
69 Columbia, SC 1 +0.9 2 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
70 Warren, MI 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
71 Cedar Rapids, IA 1 +0.4 1 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
72 Sterling Heights, MI 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
73 Athens, GA 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
74 Clovis, CA 1 +0.8 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
75 Wilmington, NC 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
76 High Point, NC 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
77 Lowell, MA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
78 Peoria, IL 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
79 Dearborn, MI 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
80 Edinburg, TX 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.75″ None detected
81 Sandy Springs, GA 1 +0.8 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
82 South Bend, IN 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
83 Palm Coast, FL 1 +0.8 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
84 Lynn, MA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
85 Davenport, IA 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 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 March 2011 beside it. The first 15 of 35; the rest are on their own pages.

  1. 01 Texas 14 days
    • 14 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 9 in March 2011
  2. 02 Illinois 13 days
    • 13 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 5 in March 2011
  3. 03 Tennessee 12 days
    • 12 measured
    • 4.25″
    • 7 in March 2011
  4. 04 North Carolina 12 days
    • 12 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 2 in March 2011
  5. 05 South Carolina 12 days
    • 12 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 2 in March 2011
  6. 06 Missouri 10 days
    • 10 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 10 in March 2011
  7. 07 Georgia 10 days
    • 10 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 5 in March 2011
  8. 08 Kentucky 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 4.25″
    • 2 in March 2011
  9. 09 Alabama 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 4.25″
    • 6 in March 2011
  10. 10 Indiana 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 3.00″
    • 3 in March 2011
  11. 11 Kansas 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 4.25″
    • 6 in March 2011
  12. 12 Virginia 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 3 in March 2011
  13. 13 West Virginia 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 3 in March 2011
  14. 14 Ohio 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 3 in March 2011
  15. 15 Michigan 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 3.00″
    • 2 in March 2011

The busiest day of the month

Friday 2 March 2012

Hail reports
1,825
Sources
×3
Measured
4.25″
States
19

Against March 2011

The same month a year earlier, counted the same way; the March 2011 edition has the full table. Little Rock, AR led then with 3 days.

85 +17

Metros with a hail day

March 2011 68

30 +3

Days with hail on record nationally

March 2011 27

30 +3

Days with a measured hail report

March 2011 27

7,731 +3,466

Hail reports, all sources

March 2011 4,265

Cite this edition

Titan Weather, Hail days by metro, March 2012. Compiled 26 August 2026. https://titanweather.com/data/2012/03

Compiled 26 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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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 16 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 26 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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