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Edition 2016-05

Hail days by metro, May 2016.

In May 2016, 99 of 333 metros had at least one day with a hail report within 10 miles of their centre, against 83 in May 2015. Wichita, KS led with 5 days, against its own May mean of 2.2 over 20 prior years of record. Clarksville, TN was furthest above its own record, at 4 days against a mean of 0.7. 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.

99

Of 333 metros with a hail day

31

Days with hail on record nationally

100%

Of metro hail days carried a measured report

5.00in

Largest measured, 9 May, NE

Hail days by metro, May 2016

Against each metro's own May on record

Hail days by metro, May 2016: 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 May mean Measured share Largest measured Largest detected
01 Wichita, KS 5 +2.9 6 2.2 100% 5 of 5 days measured 1.00″ None detected
02 Colorado Springs, CO 4 +2.9 4 1.2 100% 4 of 4 days measured 1.25″ None detected
03 Clarksville, TN 4 +3.4 4 0.7 100% 4 of 4 days measured 1.75″ None detected
04 Charlotte, NC 3 +2.3 3 0.8 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.00″ None detected
05 Oklahoma City, OK 3 +1.1 3 2.0 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.75″ None detected
06 Kansas City, MO 3 +1.9 4 1.2 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.75″ None detected
07 Kansas City, KS 3 +1.8 5 1.2 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.75″ None detected
08 Pasadena, TX 3 +2.5 5 0.5 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.50″ None detected
09 Abilene, TX 3 +2.1 4 0.9 100% 3 of 3 days measured 2.50″ None detected
10 Houston, TX 2 +1.0 4 1.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
11 Indianapolis, IN 2 +1.3 5 0.8 100% 2 of 2 days measured 2.00″ None detected
12 Denver, CO 2 +0.7 2 1.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
13 Louisville, KY 2 +1.3 2 0.7 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
14 Omaha, NE 2 +0.1 4 1.9 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
15 Raleigh, NC 2 +0.9 6 1.2 100% 2 of 2 days measured 2.00″ None detected
16 Lincoln, NE 2 +1.1 4 0.9 100% 2 of 2 days measured 5.00″ None detected
17 Plano, TX 2 +1.2 5 0.8 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
18 St. Louis, MO 2 +0.8 6 1.2 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
19 Madison, WI 2 +1.3 4 0.7 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.25″ None detected
20 Lubbock, TX 2 +0.4 2 1.6 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.25″ None detected
21 Toledo, OH 2 +1.1 4 0.9 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
22 Winston-Salem, NC 2 +1.6 3 0.5 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
23 Frisco, TX 2 +1.4 4 0.6 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
24 Fayetteville, NC 2 +1.5 3 0.6 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
25 Overland Park, KS 2 +0.6 4 1.4 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.50″ None detected
26 Cary, NC 2 +1.2 5 0.9 100% 2 of 2 days measured 2.00″ None detected
27 McAllen, TX 2 +1.9 3 0.2 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
28 Thornton, CO 2 +1.3 2 0.8 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
29 Topeka, KS 2 +1.1 2 0.9 100% 2 of 2 days measured 2.75″ None detected
30 Wilmington, NC 2 +1.1 2 1.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
31 Billings, MT 2 +1.8 2 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 2.00″ None detected
32 Richardson, TX 2 +1.1 6 1.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
33 Westminster, CO 2 +1.3 2 0.8 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.25″ None detected
34 Allen, TX 2 +1.0 5 1.1 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
35 Conroe, TX 2 +1.6 2 0.4 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
36 Edinburg, TX 2 +1.9 3 0.2 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
37 Phoenix, AZ 1 +1.0 3 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
38 Austin, TX 1 ±0 3 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
39 Fort Worth, TX 1 −0.2 6 1.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
40 Nashville, TN 1 +0.1 1 0.9 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.50″ None detected
41 Washington, DC 1 +0.3 2 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
42 Detroit, MI 1 +0.2 1 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
43 Fresno, CA 1 +0.9 2 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
44 Tulsa, OK 1 −0.5 4 1.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
45 Aurora, CO 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
46 Lexington-Fayette, KY 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
47 Pittsburgh, PA 1 +0.6 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
48 Greensboro, NC 1 +0.4 2 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
49 Reno, NV 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
50 Irving, TX 1 −0.1 3 1.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
51 Glendale, AZ 1 +1.0 3 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
52 Scottsdale, AZ 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
53 Garland, TX 1 +0.1 5 0.9 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
54 Richmond, VA 1 +0.4 2 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
55 Hialeah, FL 1 ±0 2 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
56 Fontana, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
57 McKinney, TX 1 +0.4 4 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
58 Salt Lake City, UT 1 +1.0 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
59 Amarillo, TX 1 −0.6 3 1.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
60 Tallahassee, FL 1 +0.4 1 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
61 Grand Rapids, MI 1 ±0 6 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
62 Ontario, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
63 Shreveport, LA 1 −0.1 5 1.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
64 Aurora, IL 1 +0.2 1 0.9 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
65 Rancho Cucamonga, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
66 Fort Collins, CO 1 +0.4 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
67 Lakewood, CO 1 +0.2 1 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
68 Alexandria, VA 1 +0.3 2 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
69 Naperville, IL 1 −0.1 1 1.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
70 Olathe, KS 1 +0.1 3 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
71 Pomona, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
72 Midland, TX 1 −0.1 2 1.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
73 Warren, MI 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
74 Cedar Rapids, IA 1 +0.1 5 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
75 Palm Bay, FL 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
76 Lewisville, TX 1 +0.2 3 0.9 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
77 Sterling Heights, MI 1 +0.6 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
78 Carrollton, TX 1 +0.2 2 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
79 Norman, OK 1 −0.4 4 1.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
80 Columbia, MO 1 −0.5 1 1.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.70″ None detected
81 Pearland, TX 1 +0.8 2 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
82 Clovis, CA 1 +0.9 2 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
83 Arvada, CO 1 +0.1 1 0.9 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
84 Independence, MO 1 +0.4 2 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.00″ None detected
85 Broken Arrow, OK 1 −0.1 3 1.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
86 High Point, NC 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
87 Evansville, IN 1 +0.2 2 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
88 Las Cruces, NM 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
89 Provo, UT 1 +1.0 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
90 Springfield, IL 1 +0.2 1 0.9 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
91 Lansing, MI 1 +0.5 2 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
92 Sparks, NV 1 +0.8 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
93 Concord, NC 1 +0.2 1 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
94 Jurupa Valley, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
95 Centennial, CO 1 +0.2 1 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
96 Bend, OR 1 +0.8 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
97 Lee's Summit, MO 1 −0.1 3 1.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
98 Palm Coast, FL 1 +0.7 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.00″ None detected
99 Davenport, IA 1 −0.2 3 1.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected

By state

The states by the hail days filed under each by its source, busiest first, with May 2015 beside it. The first 15 of 43; the rest are on their own pages.

  1. 01 Texas 24 days
    • 24 measured
    • 5.00″
    • 25 in May 2015
  2. 02 Nebraska 15 days
    • 15 measured
    • 5.00″
    • 16 in May 2015
  3. 03 Oklahoma 15 days
    • 15 measured
    • 4.00″
    • 16 in May 2015
  4. 04 Kansas 14 days
    • 14 measured
    • 5.00″
    • 15 in May 2015
  5. 05 Colorado 14 days
    • 14 measured
    • 3.00″
    • 20 in May 2015
  6. 06 North Carolina 12 days
    • 12 measured
    • 2.50″
    • 4 in May 2015
  7. 07 South Carolina 11 days
    • 11 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 2 in May 2015
  8. 08 Missouri 10 days
    • 10 measured
    • 4.00″
    • 7 in May 2015
  9. 09 Iowa 10 days
    • 10 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 6 in May 2015
  10. 10 Kentucky 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 2 in May 2015
  11. 11 Virginia 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 2.25″
    • 5 in May 2015
  12. 12 Illinois 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 4.50″
    • 5 in May 2015
  13. 13 Montana 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 10 in May 2015
  14. 14 Wisconsin 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 1.50″
    • 4 in May 2015
  15. 15 Arkansas 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 6 in May 2015

The busiest day of the month

Thursday 26 May 2016

Hail reports
818
Sources
×3
Measured
4.00″
States
15

Against May 2015

The same month a year earlier, counted the same way; the May 2015 edition has the full table. Lubbock, TX led then with 6 days.

99 +16

Metros with a hail day

May 2015 83

31 ±0

Days with hail on record nationally

May 2015 31

31 ±0

Days with a measured hail report

May 2015 31

8,597 +3,677

Hail reports, all sources

May 2015 4,920

Cite this edition

Titan Weather, Hail days by metro, May 2016. Compiled 25 August 2026. https://titanweather.com/data/2016/05

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, May, in each of the 20 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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No archive holds everything. Storms cross places where nobody is standing, instruments and observers cover some areas better than others, sources revise their records, and recent reports can take weeks to arrive and settle. Coverage also thins as the years go back: an early quiet stretch may describe who was watching rather than what the weather did. Where this page shows nothing, nothing was found in the sources searched, within the period and area it states. That is not a finding that no weather occurred.

A record sits where its source filed it. Reports made from the ground are commonly logged against a town, a landmark or an offset from one rather than the spot where the measurement was taken, so any distance shown for one carries that source's own location error. Radar detections and warning geometry are instrument-located and do not.

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