Highest death toll caused by a hailstorm

In May 2017, the World Meteorological Organization announced highest reported historical death tolls from hailstorms. It found that a severe hailstorm occurring near Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, on 30 April 1888 killed 246 people with hailstones as large as “goose eggs and oranges and cricket balls.”

Most deaths results from both concussion and from exposure (after being knocked out by the hailstones, many fell unconscious into the piles of hail and froze to death).