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Edition 2024-02

Hail days by metro, February 2024.

In February 2024, 38 of 333 metros had at least one day with a hail report within 10 miles of their centre, against 43 in February 2023. Shreveport, LA led with 2 days, against its own February mean of 0.3 over 28 prior years of record. Lansing, MI 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 21 days with hail on record, against 16 a year earlier.

38

Of 333 metros with a hail day

21

Days with hail on record nationally

100%

Of metro hail days carried a measured report

4.00in

Largest measured, 12 Feb, AL

Hail days by metro, February 2024

Against each metro's own February on record

Hail days by metro, February 2024: 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 February mean Measured share Largest measured Largest detected
01 Shreveport, LA 2 +1.7 2 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 2.00″ None detected
02 Joliet, IL 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
03 Cedar Rapids, IA 2 +1.8 2 0.2 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.25″ None detected
04 Lansing, MI 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.25″ None detected
05 Peoria, IL 2 +2.0 2 0.0 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.25″ None detected
06 Davenport, IA 2 +1.7 2 0.3 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.88″ None detected
07 Chicago, IL 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
08 San Diego, CA 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
09 Austin, TX 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
10 Columbus, OH 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
11 Indianapolis, IN 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.70″ None detected
12 Milwaukee, WI 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
13 Oakland, CA 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
14 Lexington-Fayette, KY 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
15 Chula Vista, CA 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
16 Scottsdale, AZ 1 +0.8 2 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
17 Richmond, VA 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
18 Birmingham, AL 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.10″ None detected
19 Grand Rapids, MI 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
20 Tempe, AZ 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
21 Mobile, AL 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
22 Aurora, IL 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
23 Naperville, IL 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.50″ None detected
24 Rockford, IL 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.70″ None detected
25 Gainesville, FL 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
26 Visalia, CA 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
27 Columbia, SC 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
28 College Station, TX 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
29 Ann Arbor, MI 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
30 Berkeley, CA 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
31 Evansville, IN 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
32 Richmond, CA 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
33 Elgin, IL 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
34 Tuscaloosa, AL 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
35 Tyler, TX 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.75″ None detected
36 Fishers, IN 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
37 El Cajon, CA 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
38 Palm Coast, FL 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected

By state

The states by the hail days filed under each by its source, busiest first, with February 2023 beside it. The first 15 of 26; the rest are on their own pages.

  1. 01 Illinois 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 2.50″
    • 2 in February 2023
  2. 02 California 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 1.00″
    • 9 in February 2023
  3. 03 West Virginia 5 days
    • 5 measured
    • 0.50″
    • none in February 2023
  4. 04 Texas 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 3 in February 2023
  5. 05 Louisiana 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 3.00″
    • none in February 2023
  6. 06 Ohio 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 1 in February 2023
  7. 07 Indiana 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 1.00″
    • 3 in February 2023
  8. 08 Michigan 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 2.50″
    • none in February 2023
  9. 09 Kentucky 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 2 in February 2023
  10. 10 Mississippi 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 2.00″
    • none in February 2023
  11. 11 Alabama 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 4.00″
    • none in February 2023
  12. 12 Florida 2 days
    • 2 measured
    • 1.50″
    • none in February 2023
  13. 13 Wisconsin 2 days
    • 2 measured
    • 1.50″
    • none in February 2023
  14. 14 Iowa 2 days
    • 2 measured
    • 1.25″
    • none in February 2023
  15. 15 Arkansas 2 days
    • 2 measured
    • 2.50″
    • 2 in February 2023

The busiest day of the month

Tuesday 27 February 2024

Hail reports
359
Sources
×3
Measured
2.50″
States
9

Against February 2023

The same month a year earlier, counted the same way; the February 2023 edition has the full table. San Diego, CA led then with 3 days.

38 −5

Metros with a hail day

February 2023 43

21 +5

Days with hail on record nationally

February 2023 16

21 +5

Days with a measured hail report

February 2023 16

1,261 +687

Hail reports, all sources

February 2023 574

Cite this edition

Titan Weather, Hail days by metro, February 2024. Compiled 25 August 2026. https://titanweather.com/data/2024/02

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, February, in each of the 28 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.

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