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Edition 2014-10

Hail days by metro, October 2014.

In October 2014, 34 of 333 metros had at least one day with a hail report within 10 miles of their centre, against 16 in October 2013. Fort Wayne, IN led with 3 days, against its own October mean of 0.1 over 18 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 20 days with hail on record, against 19 a year earlier.

34

Of 333 metros with a hail day

20

Days with hail on record nationally

100%

Of metro hail days carried a measured report

3.00in

Largest measured, 2 Oct, OK

Hail days by metro, October 2014

Against each metro's own October on record

Hail days by metro, October 2014: 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 Wayne, IN 3 +2.9 5 0.1 100% 3 of 3 days measured 0.88″ None detected
02 Memphis, TN 2 +1.8 2 0.2 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
03 Grand Rapids, MI 2 +1.5 11 0.5 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.25″ None detected
04 Dallas, TX 1 +0.8 3 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
05 Fort Worth, TX 1 +0.4 3 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
06 Columbus, OH 1 +0.9 3 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
07 Nashville, TN 1 +0.9 2 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
08 Louisville, KY 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
09 Baltimore, MD 1 +1.0 5 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
10 Tulsa, OK 1 +0.7 3 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
11 Wichita, KS 1 +0.8 8 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
12 Plano, TX 1 +0.7 3 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
13 St. Louis, MO 1 +0.8 10 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
14 Garland, TX 1 +0.7 3 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
15 Huntsville, AL 1 +0.9 4 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
16 Overland Park, KS 1 +0.9 8 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
17 Vancouver, WA 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
18 Shreveport, LA 1 +0.9 5 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
19 Murfreesboro, TN 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
20 Denton, TX 1 +0.9 2 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
21 Olathe, KS 1 +1.0 8 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
22 Mesquite, TX 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
23 Syracuse, NY 1 +1.0 3 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
24 Waco, TX 1 +0.8 3 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
25 Jackson, MS 1 +0.9 5 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
26 Lewisville, TX 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
27 Carrollton, TX 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
28 Athens, GA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
29 Topeka, KS 1 +0.9 5 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
30 Broken Arrow, OK 1 +0.9 4 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
31 Richardson, TX 1 +0.7 3 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
32 Lansing, MI 1 +0.7 6 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
33 Gresham, OR 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
34 Lee's Summit, MO 1 +0.9 6 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected

By state

The states by the hail days filed under each by its source, busiest first, with October 2013 beside it. The first 15 of 31; the rest are on their own pages.

  1. 01 Arkansas 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 2.00″
    • none in October 2013
  2. 02 Tennessee 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 1.75″
    • none in October 2013
  3. 03 Oklahoma 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 3.00″
    • 5 in October 2013
  4. 04 Texas 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 3 in October 2013
  5. 05 Michigan 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 1.50″
    • 3 in October 2013
  6. 06 Kansas 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 2.50″
    • 5 in October 2013
  7. 07 Missouri 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 3 in October 2013
  8. 08 Alabama 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 2.75″
    • none in October 2013
  9. 09 Mississippi 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 2.00″
    • none in October 2013
  10. 10 Illinois 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 1.00″
    • 4 in October 2013
  11. 11 Kentucky 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 2.75″
    • none in October 2013
  12. 12 Indiana 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 1.25″
    • 1 in October 2013
  13. 13 North Carolina 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 1.00″
    • none in October 2013
  14. 14 Arizona 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 1.75″
    • none in October 2013
  15. 15 California 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 1.00″
    • none in October 2013

The busiest day of the month

Monday 6 October 2014

Hail reports
427
Sources
×3
Measured
2.00″
States
14

Against October 2013

The same month a year earlier, counted the same way; the October 2013 edition has the full table. Wichita, KS led then with 2 days.

34 +18

Metros with a hail day

October 2013 16

20 +1

Days with hail on record nationally

October 2013 19

20 +1

Days with a measured hail report

October 2013 19

1,663 +1,128

Hail reports, all sources

October 2013 535

Cite this edition

Titan Weather, Hail days by metro, October 2014. Compiled 26 August 2026. https://titanweather.com/data/2014/10

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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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 18 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.

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