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The public record 1996 to today

Missouri hail history

The public federal storm record holds 1,885 days with hail somewhere in Missouri since 1996, 1,356 of them at 1.00″ or more, across 48,872 reports. The largest on record is 6.00″ on 24 May 2004. 133 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: Missouri wind history.

1,885

Days with hail on record, statewide

1,356

Days at 1.00″ or more

6.00in

Largest on record, May 2004

133

Cities with hail on record nearby

Hail by city in Missouri

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 Creve Coeur 228 days
  2. 02 Maryland Heights 227 days
  3. 03 Olivette 222 days
  4. 04 University City 216 days
  5. 05 Ladue 216 days
  6. 06 St. Ann 214 days
  7. 07 Clayton 211 days
  8. 08 Crestwood 210 days
  9. 09 Overland 208 days
  10. 10 Town and Country 206 days
  11. 11 St. John 205 days
  12. 12 Kirkwood 204 days
  13. 13 Brentwood 203 days
  14. 14 Maplewood 202 days
  15. 15 Glendale 202 days
  16. 16 Webster Groves 201 days
  17. 17 Richmond Heights 199 days
  18. 18 Berkeley 198 days
  19. 19 Shrewsbury 198 days
  20. 20 Jennings 196 days
  21. 21 St. Louis 195 days
  22. 22 Des Peres 194 days
  23. 23 Ferguson 193 days
  24. 24 Bridgeton 192 days
  25. 25 Weldon Spring 191 days
  26. 26 Battlefield 190 days
  27. 27 Sunset Hills 189 days
  28. 28 St. Peters 188 days
  29. 29 Chesterfield 188 days
  30. 30 St. Charles 186 days
Every place in Missouri (133)

Hail days by year in Missouri

Days with hail At 1.00″ or more

The busiest year on record is 2011, with 98 days of hail, 72 of them at 1.00″ or more.

Largest hail recorded in Missouri

Measured Detected, not measured

Largest hail recorded in Missouri: date, hail size, evidence and where the report was taken.
Date Size Evidence County
24 May 2004 6.00″ Ground observation Not stated
24 May 2004 6.00″ Ground observation LINN, MO
18 Sep 2010 5.50″ Ground observation Not stated
18 Sep 2010 5.50″ Ground observation JACKSON, MO
07 Jan 2008 5.00″ Ground observation LAWRENCE, MO
07 Jan 2008 5.00″ Ground observation Not stated
17 Jul 2023 5.00″ Ground observation Cass, MO
17 Jul 2023 5.00″ Ground observation CASS, MO

Hail days by month in Missouri

Hail here is a May matter: 360 of the days on record fall in that month, all years together.

The next step

Get the hail report for an address in Missouri

The figures on this page are the record across Missouri: 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 Missouri 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 29 August 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.