West Chester, Pennsylvania hail history
57
Days with hail on record
20
Carried by two or more independent sources
57
Measured by a person or an instrument
2.00in
Largest measured, Aug 2008
What was searched
| Evidence | Sources | Record from | Reports within 10 mi |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ground observation | ×6 | 1996 | 179 |
| Radar detection | ×1 | When an address is run | None |
| Official NWS warning | ×1 | When an address is run | None |
| Federal declaration | ×1 | When an address is run | None |
Hail days by year in West Chester, PA
Measured Detected only 1.00″ or more
Each mark is one day with hail on record, placed where it fell in the year, and each opens the record for that day. A row with nothing on it is a year with nothing on record.
Best-attested hail storms near West Chester
Most sources first
| Date | Largest | Measured | Reports | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Aug 2008 | 2.00″ | 2.00″ | 8 | ×3 |
| 22 May 2014 | 1.50″ | 1.50″ | 21 | ×3 |
| 11 Sep 2011 | 1.25″ | 1.25″ | 3 | ×3 |
| 02 Jun 2006 | 1.25″ | 1.25″ | 4 | ×3 |
| 14 Jul 2024 | 1.00″ | 1.00″ | 5 | ×3 |
| 01 Apr 2023 | 1.00″ | 1.00″ | 6 | ×3 |
| 02 Jun 2019 | 1.00″ | 1.00″ | 27 | ×3 |
| 28 May 2019 | 1.00″ | 1.00″ | 7 | ×3 |
Sources per hail day near West Chester
- One source
- 37
- Two
- 4
- Three or more
- 16
A day carried by one report is a report. A day that radar, a trained observer and a warning all describe is a storm, and it is the kind of day a file can rest on. Every report on these days keeps its own source.
- Wind days
- 219
- Tornado days
- 5
On record within the same 10 miles. Wind history for West Chester. A report for an address searches every family.
Largest hail recorded near West Chester, PA
Measured Detected, not measured
| Date | Size | Evidence | From centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Aug 2008 | 2.00″ | Ground observation | 5.0 mi NNW |
| 10 Aug 2008 | 2.00″ | Ground observation | 0.2 mi W |
| 10 Aug 2008 | 2.00″ | Ground observation | 5.0 mi NNW |
| 24 May 2000 | 1.75″ | Ground observation | 0.8 mi NW |
| 24 May 2000 | 1.75″ | Ground observation | 1.0 mi NW |
| 10 Aug 2008 | 1.75″ | Ground observation | 3.5 mi N |
| 23 Apr 2006 | 1.50″ | Ground observation | 8.2 mi WNW |
| 22 May 2014 | 1.50″ | Ground observation | 1.0 mi NW |
The finder lists every day with hail on record within 10 miles of an address in the last 2 years, ranked by how many independent sources carried it, so the day a file names is a day the record holds.
A roof has an age. The record has its days: roof age and hail exposure counts every hail day on record near an address since the year the roof went on.
Get the hail report for an address in West Chester, PA
Everything above is the record around West Chester: enough to know there is something to cite, and from where. None of it says what reached one roof.
Run the address and the same archive is searched at the property: the storm, the date, the measured size, the distance and bearing from the roof, and the federal record each figure came from, in a document that states its own method. About a minute.
Questions about hail in West Chester, PA
How many hail days has West Chester, PA had on record?
57 days with hail within 10 miles of the centre of West Chester since 1996, 20 of them carried by two or more independent sources and 57 with hail measured by a person or an instrument.
When did it last hail in West Chester, PA?
The most recent hail on record near West Chester fell on 8 July 2025, with its largest report 0.50 inches, measured.
What is the largest hail measured near West Chester?
2.00 inches, measured on 10 August 2008, 0.2 miles W of the centre of West Chester.
How do I get a hail report for an address in West Chester?
Enter the address on this page. The Titan Weather report is the paid document: it searches the same archive at the property and lists every hail report with its date, measured size, distance and bearing from the roof, and the federal source it came from. The date-of-loss finder is free and lists the hail days on record near West Chester first.
Hail history near West Chester
Within 30 miles of West Chester, nearest first. A storm that crossed one of these crossed the others, and their counts overlap.
- Downingtown 6 mi 57 days
- Kennett Square 10 mi 52 days
- Coatesville 12 mi 45 days
- Media 12 mi 66 days
- Phoenixville 13 mi 73 days
- Brookhaven 13 mi 65 days
- Swarthmore 14 mi 67 days
- Chester 15 mi 67 days
How this page is made
- What counted
- Every hail report in the archive with a point within 10 miles of the Census centre of West Chester (39.9599, -75.6054). 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.
- Alerts
- The next storm day to enter the record near West Chester can be sent to your inbox, with the figures its page states and nothing about any roof.
- The record
- Searched from 1996 to today. Compiled 24 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 spotters cover some areas better than others, sources revise their records, and recent reports can take weeks to arrive and settle. 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.
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.