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What happened on May 19, 2022: hail, wind and tornadoes on record

The public federal storm record holds 846 hail reports, 1,172 wind reports and 48 tornado reports for May 19, 2022, filed under 29 states. The largest hail measured by a person or an instrument is 3.00″. The strongest measured wind is 100 mph. The day's hail was carried by 3 independent sources.

2,066

Reports on record, hail, wind and tornado

846

Hail reports, all sources

3.00in

Largest hail measured on the ground

3

Independent sources carrying the hail

Where it fell

The states the day's reports were filed under, busiest first. Each links to the day in that state. The size beside each is the largest hail filed there.

  1. Minnesota 3.00″
    • 325 hail
    • 12 wind
  2. Kentucky 3.00″
    • 194 hail
    • 40 wind
  3. North Carolina 1.50″
    • 46 hail
    • 107 wind
  4. Wisconsin 2.00″
    • 111 hail
    • 27 wind
    • 3 tornado
  5. Indiana 2.75″
    • 55 hail
    • 59 wind
    • 4 tornado
  6. Virginia 1.50″
    • 32 hail
    • 23 wind
  7. Tennessee 2.00″
    • 41 hail
Show 22 more states with fewer reports
  1. Utah Not sized
    • 180 wind
  2. Wyoming Not sized
    • 142 wind
  3. Montana Not sized
    • 136 wind
  4. Missouri 1.00″
    • 15 hail
    • 86 wind
    • 24 tornado
  5. Illinois 1.00″
    • 7 hail
    • 77 wind
    • 13 tornado
  6. Colorado Not sized
    • 62 wind
  7. Idaho Not sized
    • 49 wind
  8. South Dakota Not sized
    • 40 wind
  9. Ohio Not sized
    • 27 wind
  10. California Not sized
    • 24 wind
  11. Oregon Not sized
    • 22 wind
  12. Iowa 1.75″
    • 16 hail
    • 3 wind
  13. Florida Not sized
    • 12 wind
    • 4 tornado
  14. Kansas Not sized
    • 13 wind
  15. West Virginia Not sized
    • 11 wind
  16. Nevada Not sized
    • 9 wind
  17. Nebraska Not sized
    • 5 wind
  18. North Dakota 0.70″
    • 2 hail
    • 1 wind
  19. Michigan Not sized
    • 2 wind
  20. New Mexico Not sized
    • 2 wind
  21. Washington 0.25″
    • 2 hail
  22. Arizona Not sized
    • 1 wind

Places in the footprint

Every place with a hail report of the day within 10 miles of its centre, by reports. Each links to the place's own hail history; the busiest 40 are listed.

  1. Maplewood, MN 146 reports 2.00″
  2. St. Paul, MN 145 reports 2.00″
  3. Lake Elmo, MN 145 reports 2.00″
  4. North St. Paul, MN 143 reports 2.00″
  5. Oakdale, MN 142 reports 2.00″
  6. West St. Paul, MN 139 reports 2.00″
  7. Little Canada, MN 133 reports 2.00″
  8. Roseville, MN 126 reports 2.00″
  9. Mahtomedi, MN 125 reports 2.00″
  10. South St. Paul, MN 118 reports 2.00″
  11. White Bear Lake, MN 111 reports 2.00″
  12. Woodbury, MN 107 reports 2.00″
28 more places in the footprint
  1. Vadnais Heights, MN 102 reports 2.00″
  2. Stillwater, MN 101 reports 2.00″
  3. Mendota Heights, MN 93 reports 1.75″
  4. St. Anthony, MN 90 reports 1.75″
  5. Newport, MN 87 reports 2.00″
  6. Minneapolis, MN 81 reports 1.75″
  7. Arden Hills, MN 79 reports 1.75″
  8. New Brighton, MN 73 reports 1.75″
  9. Hudson, WI 73 reports 2.00″
  10. Columbia Heights, MN 67 reports 1.75″
  11. Inver Grove Heights, MN 63 reports 1.75″
  12. Shoreview, MN 61 reports 1.75″
  13. North Oaks, MN 58 reports 1.75″
  14. St. Paul Park, MN 54 reports 1.75″
  15. Richfield, MN 52 reports 1.75″
  16. Eagan, MN 50 reports 1.75″
  17. Robbinsdale, MN 49 reports 1.25″
  18. St. Louis Park, MN 46 reports 1.25″
  19. Golden Valley, MN 46 reports 1.25″
  20. La Crosse, WI 44 reports 1.50″
  21. La Crescent, MN 44 reports 1.75″
  22. Onalaska, WI 42 reports 1.75″
  23. Rochester, MN 40 reports 1.50″
  24. Edina, MN 39 reports 1.25″
  25. Bloomington, MN 36 reports 1.25″
  26. Fridley, MN 34 reports 1.50″
  27. West Salem, WI 33 reports 1.75″
  28. Kingsport, TN 32 reports 1.75″

By kind of evidence

A day carried by a ground observation, a radar detection and a warning is attested three independent ways. A day carried by one kind from one source is one report. Each report below keeps its own source.

By kind of evidence: the kinds of evidence on record for the day, the number of independent sources of each, and the reports each contributed.
Evidence Sources Reports
Ground observation ×3 2,066

Largest hail reports on the day

Measured Detected, not measured

Largest hail reports on the day: time, hail size, evidence and where the report was taken.
Time (UTC) Size Evidence County
16:57 3.00″ Ground observation FREEBORN, MN
02:12 3.00″ Ground observation FAYETTE, KY
02:12 3.00″ Ground observation FAYETTE, KY
03:43 3.00″ Ground observation HARRISON, KY
02:12 3.00″ Ground observation Not stated
16:57 3.00″ Ground observation Not stated
03:43 3.00″ Ground observation Not stated
03:43 3.00″ Ground observation HARRISON, KY

Neighbouring days

The nearest days either side with anything on record, the same date in other years, and the hail history the day belongs to.

Previous day with records
May 18, 2022
Next day with records
May 20, 2022
This day in other years
Hail history and data
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How this page is made

What counted
Every hail report in the archive filed on May 19, 2022, in any state, with wind and tornado reports counted beside it and the places ranked by the hail 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
Reports are counted as the sources filed them, so a storm four sources describe is four reports on this page and one afternoon of hail on a place page. This page is the record for a day; 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 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.

Settled or provisional
Settled. The last national segment covering this day settled on August 24, 2026, and the figures above are drawn from the settled record.