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Edition 2019-09

Hail days by metro, September 2019.

In September 2019, 37 of 333 metros had at least one day with a hail report within 10 miles of their centre, against 17 in September 2018. Lincoln, NE led with 2 days, against its own September mean of 0.3 over 23 prior years of record. Buckeye, AZ was furthest above its own record, at 2 days against a mean of 0.0. 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 28 days with hail on record, against 21 a year earlier.

37

Of 333 metros with a hail day

28

Days with hail on record nationally

100%

Of metro hail days carried a measured report

4.38in

Largest measured, 10 Sep, WY

Hail days by metro, September 2019

Against each metro's own September on record

Hail days by metro, September 2019: 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 September mean Measured share Largest measured Largest detected
01 Lincoln, NE 2 +1.7 5 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
02 Huntsville, AL 2 +1.9 3 0.1 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.70″ None detected
03 Greeley, CO 2 +1.9 7 0.1 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
04 Buckeye, AZ 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
05 Phoenix, AZ 1 +0.8 4 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
06 Nashville, TN 1 +0.9 2 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
07 Portland, OR 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
08 Atlanta, GA 1 +0.8 2 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.70″ None detected
09 Omaha, NE 1 +0.6 3 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
10 St. Paul, MN 1 +0.6 3 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
11 Pittsburgh, PA 1 +0.9 4 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
12 Madison, WI 1 +0.7 4 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
13 Glendale, AZ 1 +0.8 3 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
14 Scottsdale, AZ 1 +1.0 2 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
15 Baton Rouge, LA 1 +0.9 4 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
16 Des Moines, IA 1 +0.8 3 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
17 Sioux Falls, SD 1 +0.9 6 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
18 Peoria, AZ 1 +1.0 3 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
19 Overland Park, KS 1 +0.8 4 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
20 Vancouver, WA 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
21 Tempe, AZ 1 +0.7 3 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
22 Aurora, IL 1 +0.9 6 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
23 Salem, OR 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
24 Surprise, AZ 1 +1.0 2 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
25 Kansas City, KS 1 +0.7 5 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
26 Olathe, KS 1 +0.7 4 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
27 West Valley City, UT 1 +1.0 4 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
28 Kent, WA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
29 Fargo, ND 1 +0.7 3 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
30 Topeka, KS 1 +0.7 7 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.00″ None detected
31 Wilmington, NC 1 +1.0 3 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
32 West Jordan, UT 1 +0.9 4 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
33 Westminster, CO 1 +1.0 8 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
34 Gresham, OR 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
35 Peoria, IL 1 +0.8 2 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
36 Boulder, CO 1 +1.0 6 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
37 Sandy Springs, GA 1 +0.8 2 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.70″ None detected

By state

The states by the hail days filed under each by its source, busiest first, with September 2018 beside it. The first 15 of 42; the rest are on their own pages.

  1. 01 Nebraska 12 days
    • 12 measured
    • 2.50″
    • 5 in September 2018
  2. 02 Colorado 11 days
    • 11 measured
    • 3.25″
    • 3 in September 2018
  3. 03 Iowa 10 days
    • 10 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 4 in September 2018
  4. 04 Minnesota 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 11 in September 2018
  5. 05 Wisconsin 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 1.50″
    • 4 in September 2018
  6. 06 Kansas 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 2.50″
    • 4 in September 2018
  7. 07 South Dakota 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 5 in September 2018
  8. 08 Michigan 7 days
    • 7 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 1 in September 2018
  9. 09 North Dakota 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 9 in September 2018
  10. 10 Arizona 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 2 in September 2018
  11. 11 Montana 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 2 in September 2018
  12. 12 Idaho 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 1.50″
    • none in September 2018
  13. 13 Virginia 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 1 in September 2018
  14. 14 Illinois 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 2.50″
    • 2 in September 2018
  15. 15 Missouri 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 2.50″
    • none in September 2018

The busiest day of the month

Friday 27 September 2019

Hail reports
329
Sources
×3
Measured
2.50″
States
6

Against September 2018

The same month a year earlier, counted the same way; the September 2018 edition has the full table. Jacksonville, FL led then with 1 day.

37 +20

Metros with a hail day

September 2018 17

28 +7

Days with hail on record nationally

September 2018 21

28 +7

Days with a measured hail report

September 2018 21

2,336 +1,738

Hail reports, all sources

September 2018 598

Cite this edition

Titan Weather, Hail days by metro, September 2019. Compiled 25 August 2026. https://titanweather.com/data/2019/09

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, September, in each of the 23 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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