“…Since 1898, numerous works on the climatology of hailstorms have been carried out in the Indian subcontinent by using the available ground‐based hail‐reporting data (Eliot, 1898; Ramdas et al ., 1938; Frisby and Sansom, 1967; Gokhale, 1975; Philip and Daniel, 1976; Chaudhury and Banerjee, 1983; De et al ., 2005; Biswas et al ., 2010; Das et al ., 2010; Chattopadhyay et al ., 2017). However, reporting data have some uncertainties: (a) the times and locations of hailstorms may not be precise, (b) the reports may be dominated by graupel, (c) the hailstorms far from reporting stations could be omitted, and (d) percentage of false‐alarm and missed hailstorms in the reports could not be known.…”