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The public record 1996 to today

Indiana hail history

The public federal storm record holds 1,132 days with hail somewhere in Indiana since 1996, 665 of them at 1.00″ or more, across 19,841 reports. The largest on record is 4.50″ on 17 May 2000 in VERMILLION County. 126 cities have hail on record within 10 miles of their centre, and each has a page that says what was searched and which storm days more than one source carried. The wind family has its own index: Indiana wind history.

1,132

Days with hail on record, statewide

665

Days at 1.00″ or more

4.50in

Largest on record, May 2000

126

Cities with hail on record nearby

Hail by city in Indiana

Ranked by days with hail on record within 10 miles of each city's centre, then by population. Every place of five thousand people or more has a page; the busiest are listed here and the rest are a disclosure away.

  1. 01 Indianapolis 145 days
  2. 02 Beech Grove 144 days
  3. 03 Speedway 141 days
  4. 04 Fort Wayne 120 days
  5. 05 Dyer 119 days
  6. 06 New Haven 118 days
  7. 07 Westfield 116 days
  8. 08 Carmel 112 days
  9. 09 Noblesville 111 days
  10. 10 Avon 110 days
  11. 11 Munster 110 days
  12. 12 Plainfield 109 days
  13. 13 Fishers 108 days
  14. 14 Lawrence 108 days
  15. 15 Cumberland 107 days
  16. 16 Whitestown 106 days
  17. 17 Brownsburg 104 days
  18. 18 St. John 103 days
  19. 19 Greenwood 102 days
  20. 20 Schererville 102 days
  21. 21 Huntertown 102 days
  22. 22 Jeffersonville 101 days
  23. 23 Mooresville 101 days
  24. 24 Zionsville 100 days
  25. 25 Mishawaka 99 days
  26. 26 Hammond 97 days
  27. 27 Highland 97 days
  28. 28 Griffith 94 days
  29. 29 Ellettsville 93 days
  30. 30 New Whiteland 93 days
Every place in Indiana (126)

Hail days by year in Indiana

Days with hail At 1.00″ or more

The busiest year on record is 2011, with 66 days of hail, 38 of them at 1.00″ or more.

Largest hail recorded in Indiana

Measured Detected, not measured

Largest hail recorded in Indiana: date, hail size, evidence and where the report was taken.
Date Size Evidence County
17 May 2000 4.50″ Ground observation VERMILLION, IN
18 May 2000 4.50″ Ground observation Not stated
09 Apr 2001 4.50″ Ground observation BLACKFORD, IN
09 Apr 2001 4.50″ Ground observation Not stated
19 Jun 2009 4.50″ Ground observation FULTON, IN
19 Jun 2009 4.50″ Ground observation Not stated
09 May 2003 4.25″ Ground observation WHITLEY, IN
09 May 2003 4.25″ Ground observation WHITLEY, IN

Hail days by month in Indiana

Hail here is a June matter: 219 of the days on record fall in that month, all years together.

The next step

Get the hail report for an address in Indiana

The figures on this page are the record across Indiana: enough to know there is something to cite, and from where. None of it says what reached one roof.

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How this page is made

What counted
Every hail report in the archive filed under Indiana by its source, with the cities ranked by the reports within 10 miles of each centre. A hail day is a calendar date with at least one report: four sources describing one storm are one afternoon of hail, not four.
Measured and detected
A report from a person or an instrument is measured. A radar-derived size is a detection and is marked as one, here and in every document we issue. The two are never added together.
Severe
A day counts as severe when its largest report reached 1.00″, the National Weather Service criterion. Smaller hail is still on the record, and still on this page.
What this is not
Neighbouring places share reports, so counts are not exclusive. This page is the record around a place; it is not a report on any property, and it states no opinion about one.
Terms used on this page
Storm day, independent source, measured and detected: each term this page uses is defined in the glossary as the report prints it.
The record
Searched from 1996 to today. Compiled 2 November 2026 and rebuilt daily as the archive deepens. 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

Everything here is reproduced from public federal and volunteer weather records, as the agencies and observer networks that publish them released it. Titan Weather compiles the record; it does not observe the weather, and it is not affiliated with any source it cites.

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.

These pages describe the public record near a place or on a date. They do not establish what reached any particular property, and nothing here is insurance, legal or engineering advice.