This is a list of the costliest or deadliest hailstorms on record.
Notable events
North America
Europe
Asia
South America
Africa
Australia
Largest by country
- 15 March 1808 â Somerset, England, United Kingdom ~ "hailstones, touching perhaps 100 mm in places, causing great damage. Indeed, some in Somerset were reported to be over a foot long (at 333 mm)" and up to 220 g.
- 29 June 1917 â According to Japan Meteological Agency and Saitama prefectural government has official confirmed report, a and , like a pumpkin size hail and others many large size hail show in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture, where 10âÂÂ60 centimeters hole hit occurs in rice field on five place, and one person death.(Source:Saitama Prefecture, Japan Meteological Agency)
- 27 August 1973 â Cedoux, Saskatchewan, Canada, nicknamed Gawel stone at a diameter of heaviest at and
- 19 July 2023 â Carmignano di Brenta, Veneto, Northern Italy ~
- 31 July 1987 â during Edmonton Tornado official larger than , reported
- 14 April 1986 â Gopalganj District, Bangladesh ()
- 19 October 2021 â Yalboroo, Queensland, Australia (16 cm)
- 23 July 2010 â Vivian, South Dakota, United States (~ diameter & ~ circumference)
- 28 July 2013 â Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (14.1 cm diameter & 360âÂÂ380 g weight)
- 25 September 2024 â Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (14.6 cm diameter, officialized by PREVOTS)
See also
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