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Edition 2017-07

Hail days by metro, July 2017.

In July 2017, 64 of 333 metros had at least one day with a hail report within 10 miles of their centre, against 78 in July 2016. Elgin, IL led with 4 days, against its own July mean of 0.5 over 21 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.

64

Of 333 metros with a hail day

31

Days with hail on record nationally

100%

Of metro hail days carried a measured report

4.00in

Largest measured, 9 Jul, MN

Hail days by metro, July 2017

Against each metro's own July on record

Hail days by metro, July 2017: 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 July mean Measured share Largest measured Largest detected
01 Elgin, IL 4 +3.5 8 0.5 100% 4 of 4 days measured 1.00″ None detected
02 Rockford, IL 3 +2.7 9 0.3 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.75″ None detected
03 Cedar Rapids, IA 3 +2.5 11 0.5 100% 3 of 3 days measured 0.75″ None detected
04 Fort Worth, TX 2 +1.9 5 0.1 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
05 El Paso, TX 2 +1.7 4 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
06 Colorado Springs, CO 2 −0.1 5 2.1 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
07 Madison, WI 2 +1.4 5 0.6 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.50″ None detected
08 Amarillo, TX 2 +1.5 6 0.5 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
09 Fort Lauderdale, FL 2 +1.3 2 0.7 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
10 Charleston, SC 2 +1.4 6 0.6 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.25″ None detected
11 Coral Springs, FL 2 +1.7 2 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
12 North Charleston, SC 2 +1.1 6 0.9 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.25″ None detected
13 Davie, FL 2 +1.3 2 0.7 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
14 Jacksonville, FL 1 +0.5 4 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
15 Columbus, OH 1 +0.6 4 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
16 Charlotte, NC 1 +0.3 3 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
17 Denver, CO 1 +0.2 2 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
18 Detroit, MI 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
19 Milwaukee, WI 1 +0.7 3 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
20 Kansas City, MO 1 +0.5 5 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
21 Omaha, NE 1 +0.3 6 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
22 Raleigh, NC 1 +0.1 2 0.9 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
23 Minneapolis, MN 1 +0.2 3 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
24 Orlando, FL 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
25 St. Paul, MN 1 +0.2 5 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
26 Lincoln, NE 1 +0.7 6 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
27 St. Louis, MO 1 +0.4 6 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
28 Fort Wayne, IN 1 +0.7 6 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
29 Glendale, AZ 1 +0.9 2 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
30 Winston-Salem, NC 1 +0.8 3 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
31 Garland, TX 1 +0.7 5 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
32 Frisco, TX 1 +1.0 6 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
33 Hialeah, FL 1 +0.1 1 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
34 Fayetteville, NC 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
35 Overland Park, KS 1 +0.6 7 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
36 Birmingham, AL 1 +0.6 6 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
37 Grand Rapids, MI 1 +0.5 8 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
38 Aurora, IL 1 +0.7 4 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
39 Pembroke Pines, FL 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
40 Lakewood, CO 1 +0.4 3 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
41 Hollywood, FL 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
42 Kansas City, KS 1 +0.6 6 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
43 Joliet, IL 1 +0.4 6 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
44 Naperville, IL 1 +0.4 6 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
45 Columbia, SC 1 +0.3 3 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
46 Miramar, FL 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
47 Lewisville, TX 1 +0.9 5 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
48 Fargo, ND 1 +0.2 3 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
49 Allentown, PA 1 +0.6 4 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
50 Lakeland, FL 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
51 Ann Arbor, MI 1 +0.4 2 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
52 Richardson, TX 1 +0.8 4 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
53 Clearwater, FL 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.70″ None detected
54 Pompano Beach, FL 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
55 Springfield, IL 1 +0.7 3 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
56 Lansing, MI 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
57 Miami Gardens, FL 1 +0.1 1 0.9 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
58 Peoria, IL 1 +0.7 8 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
59 Concord, NC 1 +0.7 3 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
60 Centennial, CO 1 +0.2 3 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
61 Dearborn, MI 1 +0.6 2 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
62 Green Bay, WI 1 +0.7 3 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
63 Lee's Summit, MO 1 +0.8 5 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
64 Davenport, IA 1 +0.5 8 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected

By state

The states by the hail days filed under each by its source, busiest first, with July 2016 beside it. The first 15 of 45; the rest are on their own pages.

  1. 01 Nebraska 16 days
    • 16 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 16 in July 2016
  2. 02 South Dakota 14 days
    • 14 measured
    • 3.00″
    • 18 in July 2016
  3. 03 Minnesota 13 days
    • 13 measured
    • 4.00″
    • 13 in July 2016
  4. 04 Wisconsin 13 days
    • 13 measured
    • 3.50″
    • 7 in July 2016
  5. 05 Illinois 13 days
    • 13 measured
    • 2.50″
    • 10 in July 2016
  6. 06 North Dakota 12 days
    • 12 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 18 in July 2016
  7. 07 Montana 12 days
    • 12 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 16 in July 2016
  8. 08 Colorado 12 days
    • 12 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 20 in July 2016
  9. 09 Iowa 10 days
    • 10 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 6 in July 2016
  10. 10 North Carolina 10 days
    • 10 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 14 in July 2016
  11. 11 Texas 10 days
    • 10 measured
    • 2.50″
    • 10 in July 2016
  12. 12 Florida 10 days
    • 10 measured
    • 1.25″
    • 13 in July 2016
  13. 13 South Carolina 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 14 in July 2016
  14. 14 Kansas 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 3.00″
    • 13 in July 2016
  15. 15 Georgia 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 1.00″
    • 9 in July 2016

The busiest day of the month

Friday 7 July 2017

Hail reports
336
Sources
×3
Measured
2.50″
States
19

Against July 2016

The same month a year earlier, counted the same way; the July 2016 edition has the full table. Colorado Springs, CO led then with 4 days.

64 −14

Metros with a hail day

July 2016 78

31 ±0

Days with hail on record nationally

July 2016 31

31 ±0

Days with a measured hail report

July 2016 31

3,623 −1,406

Hail reports, all sources

July 2016 5,029

Cite this edition

Titan Weather, Hail days by metro, July 2017. Compiled 25 August 2026. https://titanweather.com/data/2017/07

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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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, July, in each of the 21 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.
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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.

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