Search NOAA's Storm Events Database for hail/wind events in a service area
domain: www.ncei.noaa.gov · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Go to the Storm Events Database search page at ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents and select the target state or area.
Optionally narrow using the narrative text search to find events matching specific keywords (e.g., a city name).
Review results, which include event type, date, magnitude (e.g., hail size in inches, wind speed in knots), and reported property damage estimates.
Cross-reference hail-size or wind-speed magnitude fields against your minimum job-qualifying thresholds to prioritize outreach in the hardest-hit areas.
For a single specific day across all years, use the 'Find all events on this day' list view to spot recurring seasonal risk patterns in a service area.
Known gotchas
Data for a given month typically is not available in the database until approximately 75–90 days after the end of that month, so recent storms will not appear immediately — plan CAT response using faster-moving sources (e.g., NWS alerts) for real-time decisions.
NOAA explicitly disclaims the accuracy of Storm Data: figures (especially property/crop damage estimates) are 'best guess' estimates from varied outside sources, not audited figures, and are not adjusted for inflation.
Latitude/longitude precision varies significantly by era (roughly 1-mile uncertainty pre-1996 vs. 15–30 foot accuracy post-2006) — do not treat older event geocoding as precise enough for micro-targeting a specific property.
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