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Edition 2015-08

Hail days by metro, August 2015.

In August 2015, 57 of 333 metros had at least one day with a hail report within 10 miles of their centre, against 72 in August 2014. Milwaukee, WI led with 4 days, against its own August mean of 0.3 over 19 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 31 days with hail on record, against 31 a year earlier.

57

Of 333 metros with a hail day

31

Days with hail on record nationally

100%

Of metro hail days carried a measured report

4.50in

Largest measured, 2 Aug, MI

Hail days by metro, August 2015

Against each metro's own August on record

Hail days by metro, August 2015: 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 August mean Measured share Largest measured Largest detected
01 Milwaukee, WI 4 +3.7 6 0.3 100% 4 of 4 days measured 1.25″ None detected
02 Tempe, AZ 3 +2.7 3 0.3 100% 3 of 3 days measured 0.75″ None detected
03 Tucson, AZ 2 +1.3 3 0.7 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
04 Omaha, NE 2 +1.2 3 0.8 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
05 Fort Wayne, IN 2 +1.4 7 0.6 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.70″ None detected
06 Worcester, MA 2 +1.6 2 0.4 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
07 Fort Lauderdale, FL 2 +1.4 6 0.6 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.25″ None detected
08 Naperville, IL 2 +1.5 4 0.5 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
09 Dayton, OH 2 +1.8 5 0.2 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
10 Cambridge, MA 2 +1.7 3 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 2.00″ None detected
11 Lansing, MI 2 +1.6 2 0.4 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.25″ None detected
12 Chicago, IL 1 +0.5 3 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
13 Jacksonville, FL 1 +0.8 6 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
14 Nashville, TN 1 +0.7 5 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
15 El Paso, TX 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
16 Boston, MA 1 +0.8 2 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.00″ None detected
17 Detroit, MI 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
18 Baltimore, MD 1 +0.5 2 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
19 Colorado Springs, CO 1 −0.8 14 1.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
20 Cincinnati, OH 1 +0.6 3 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
21 Pittsburgh, PA 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
22 Plano, TX 1 +1.0 2 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
23 Chandler, AZ 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
24 Garland, TX 1 +1.0 2 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
25 Des Moines, IA 1 +0.7 4 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
26 Amarillo, TX 1 +0.4 8 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
27 Overland Park, KS 1 +0.6 3 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
28 Grand Rapids, MI 1 +0.9 3 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
29 Aurora, IL 1 +0.5 3 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
30 Pembroke Pines, FL 1 +0.4 8 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
31 Springfield, MO 1 +0.7 4 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
32 Murfreesboro, TN 1 +0.8 2 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
33 Hollywood, FL 1 +0.4 4 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
34 Joliet, IL 1 +0.5 4 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
35 Olathe, KS 1 +0.6 2 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
36 Mesquite, TX 1 +1.0 3 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
37 McAllen, TX 1 +1.0 2 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
38 Gainesville, FL 1 +1.0 2 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
39 Miramar, FL 1 +0.4 7 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
40 Warren, MI 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
41 Coral Springs, FL 1 +0.9 3 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
42 College Station, TX 1 +0.8 3 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
43 Richardson, TX 1 +1.0 2 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
44 Lowell, MA 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
45 Pompano Beach, FL 1 +0.9 3 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
46 Elgin, IL 1 +0.3 4 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
47 Allen, TX 1 +1.0 2 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
48 Miami Gardens, FL 1 +0.3 6 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
49 Sugar Land, TX 1 +1.0 2 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
50 Davie, FL 1 +0.4 5 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
51 Centennial, CO 1 ±0 8 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
52 Dearborn, MI 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
53 Green Bay, WI 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
54 Quincy, MA 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.00″ None detected
55 Lynn, MA 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
56 Albany, NY 1 +0.6 2 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
57 Davenport, IA 1 +0.6 3 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.00″ None detected

By state

The states by the hail days filed under each by its source, busiest first, with August 2014 beside it. The first 15 of 44; the rest are on their own pages.

  1. 01 Colorado 15 days
    • 15 measured
    • 3.50″
    • 9 in August 2014
  2. 02 Nebraska 14 days
    • 14 measured
    • 2.50″
    • 15 in August 2014
  3. 03 New Mexico 13 days
    • 13 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 1 in August 2014
  4. 04 Kansas 10 days
    • 10 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 14 in August 2014
  5. 05 Texas 10 days
    • 10 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 5 in August 2014
  6. 06 Wisconsin 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 4.00″
    • 7 in August 2014
  7. 07 Minnesota 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 4.25″
    • 7 in August 2014
  8. 08 Arizona 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 1.00″
    • 6 in August 2014
  9. 09 Michigan 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 4.50″
    • 9 in August 2014
  10. 10 South Dakota 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 15 in August 2014
  11. 11 Missouri 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 1.50″
    • 5 in August 2014
  12. 12 Oklahoma 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 3 in August 2014
  13. 13 Indiana 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 2.50″
    • 7 in August 2014
  14. 14 Florida 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 1.00″
    • 8 in August 2014
  15. 15 Iowa 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 2.50″
    • 10 in August 2014

The busiest day of the month

Sunday 2 August 2015

Hail reports
802
Sources
×3
Measured
4.50″
States
12

Against August 2014

The same month a year earlier, counted the same way; the August 2014 edition has the full table. Joliet, IL led then with 3 days.

57 −15

Metros with a hail day

August 2014 72

31 ±0

Days with hail on record nationally

August 2014 31

31 ±0

Days with a measured hail report

August 2014 31

3,406 +747

Hail reports, all sources

August 2014 2,659

Cite this edition

Titan Weather, Hail days by metro, August 2015. Compiled 26 August 2026. https://titanweather.com/data/2015/08

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, August, in each of the 19 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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