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Edition 2017-08

Hail days by metro, August 2017.

In August 2017, 46 of 333 metros had at least one day with a hail report within 10 miles of their centre, against 48 in August 2016. Indianapolis, IN led with 2 days, against its own August mean of 0.4 over 21 prior years of record. Dearborn, MI was furthest above its own record, at 2 days against a mean of 0.2. 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.

46

Of 333 metros with a hail day

31

Days with hail on record nationally

100%

Of metro hail days carried a measured report

4.25in

Largest measured, 9 Aug, KS

Hail days by metro, August 2017

Against each metro's own August on record

Hail days by metro, August 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 August mean Measured share Largest measured Largest detected
01 Indianapolis, IN 2 +1.6 6 0.4 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
02 Washington, DC 2 +1.4 4 0.6 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
03 Baltimore, MD 2 +1.5 5 0.5 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
04 Colorado Springs, CO 2 +0.2 7 1.8 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
05 West Jordan, UT 2 +1.2 2 0.8 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
06 Dearborn, MI 2 +1.8 4 0.2 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
07 Philadelphia, PA 1 +0.4 3 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
08 Oklahoma City, OK 1 +0.7 5 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
09 Boston, MA 1 +0.8 2 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
10 Milwaukee, WI 1 +0.6 4 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
11 Mesa, AZ 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
12 Kansas City, MO 1 +0.6 6 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
13 Wichita, KS 1 +0.6 5 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
14 Cleveland, OH 1 +0.5 3 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
15 Reno, NV 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
16 Buffalo, NY 1 +0.9 2 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
17 Scottsdale, AZ 1 +1.0 2 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
18 Yonkers, NY 1 +0.4 1 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
19 Worcester, MA 1 +0.5 2 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
20 Sioux Falls, SD 1 +0.7 3 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
21 Grand Rapids, MI 1 +0.8 9 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
22 Tempe, AZ 1 +0.5 2 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
23 Fort Collins, CO 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
24 Palmdale, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
25 Charleston, SC 1 +0.6 7 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
26 Alexandria, VA 1 +0.5 3 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
27 Kansas City, KS 1 +0.9 7 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
28 Naperville, IL 1 +0.5 7 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
29 Cedar Rapids, IA 1 +0.7 12 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
30 Elizabeth, NJ 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
31 West Valley City, UT 1 +0.4 1 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
32 North Charleston, SC 1 +0.3 7 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
33 Independence, MO 1 +0.8 3 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
34 Billings, MT 1 +0.9 4 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
35 Hartford, CT 1 +0.8 2 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
36 Cambridge, MA 1 +0.6 2 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
37 Las Cruces, NM 1 +0.8 3 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
38 Lansing, MI 1 +0.5 3 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
39 Goodyear, AZ 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
40 Sparks, NV 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
41 Green Bay, WI 1 +0.7 4 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
42 South Bend, IN 1 +0.7 6 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
43 Carmel, IN 1 +0.7 6 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
44 Fayetteville, AR 1 +0.7 5 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
45 Lynn, MA 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
46 Albany, NY 1 +0.6 2 0.4 100% 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 August 2016 beside it. The first 15 of 42; the rest are on their own pages.

  1. 01 Nebraska 17 days
    • 17 measured
    • 3.00″
    • 8 in August 2016
  2. 02 South Dakota 16 days
    • 16 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 15 in August 2016
  3. 03 Kansas 16 days
    • 16 measured
    • 4.25″
    • 10 in August 2016
  4. 04 Colorado 14 days
    • 14 measured
    • 3.00″
    • 17 in August 2016
  5. 05 New Mexico 10 days
    • 10 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 8 in August 2016
  6. 06 California 10 days
    • 10 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 1 in August 2016
  7. 07 Iowa 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 8 in August 2016
  8. 08 Michigan 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 3 in August 2016
  9. 09 Minnesota 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 10 in August 2016
  10. 10 Oklahoma 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 7 in August 2016
  11. 11 New York 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 1.75″
    • none in August 2016
  12. 12 Texas 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 2.50″
    • 5 in August 2016
  13. 13 Wisconsin 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 5 in August 2016
  14. 14 Ohio 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 3 in August 2016
  15. 15 North Dakota 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 13 in August 2016

The busiest day of the month

Thursday 10 August 2017

Hail reports
301
Sources
×3
Measured
4.25″
States
11

Against August 2016

The same month a year earlier, counted the same way; the August 2016 edition has the full table. Phoenix, AZ led then with 2 days.

46 −2

Metros with a hail day

August 2016 48

31 ±0

Days with hail on record nationally

August 2016 31

31 ±0

Days with a measured hail report

August 2016 31

2,539 +623

Hail reports, all sources

August 2016 1,916

Cite this edition

Titan Weather, Hail days by metro, August 2017. Compiled 25 August 2026. https://titanweather.com/data/2017/08

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, August, 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.
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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