Storm reports for June 11, 1998

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On June 11, 1998, 34 hail, 30 damaging-wind and 16 tornado reports were logged across 14 states. The largest hail reported was 1.75″ (golf ball size) in Burke County, NC.

Storm day runs 7 a.m. to 7 a.m. Eastern (12:00–12:00 UTC), the convention the Storm Prediction Center uses. Radar hail estimates start October 2019.

Storm reports by state

Cities with hail reported within 5 miles

Hail reports (34)

Damage, injuries and deaths

National Weather Service offices recorded about $13.9 million in property damage, $102,000 in crop damage and 17 injuries from hail, thunderstorm wind and tornadoes across the US on this storm day (95 events in 14 states). Injuries and deaths are those the events caused directly.

What the National Weather Service wrote

• Kosciusko County, IN (near Etna Green) · Tornado F1 · $800,000 · 4 injuries
  “THIS WAS ANOTHER TORNADO SPAWNED FROM THE SAME TORNADIC SUPERCELL THAT CAUSED DAMAGE IN PULASKI COUNTY EARLIER IN THE EVENING. 30 MOBILE HOMES AT THE MIKEL MOBILE ESTATES WERE DAMAGED, MANY SEVERELY. SOME WERE SIMPLY OVERTURNED WHILE OTHERS WERE COMPLETELY FLATTENED.”
• Pulaski County, IN (near Ripley) · Tornado F2 · $1 million · 1 injury
  “4 TRAILER HOMES DESTROYED, SEVERAL OTHERS SUFFERED MINOR TO MAJOR DAMAGE, ONE HOME AND BARN DESTROYED, SEVERAL OTHER HOMES SUFFERED MODERATE DAMAGE. TORNADO STARTED IN RIPLEY AND TRACKED EAST NORTHEAST TO MONTEREY BEFORE IT LIFTED. EXTENSIVE TREE DAMAGE OCCURRED ALONG THE TORNADOES PATH.”
• Grant County, IN (near Fairmount) · Tornado F1 · $1 million
  “THIS TORNADO TRACK WAS A CONTINUATION OF THE TORNADO WHICH BEGAN NEAR THE TOWN OF ELWOOD IN MADISON COUNTY. THE TORNADO WAS WEAKENING AS IT CROSSED INTO GRANT COUNTY BUT CAUSED EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO SEVERAL FARMS. ONE FARMSTEAD SUFFERED A DESTROYED BARN AND AN OVERTURNED JUNK BUS.”
• Henry County, IN (near Mt Summit) · Tornado F1 · $800,000
  “Third tornado from single supercell four builings nad damaged nearly 10 others.”
• Grant County, IN (near Swayzee) · Tornado F1 · $500,000
  “THIS TORNADO WAS A CONTINUATION OF THE GREENTOWN TORNADO IN HOWARD COUNTY. THE TORNADO WAS WEAKENING AS IT CROSSED INTO GRANT COUNTY BUT CAUSED EXTENSIVE TREE DAMAGE ALONG ITS PATH AND SEVERLY DAMAGED SEVERAL HOMES IN SWAYZEE. MANY OF THE HOMES SUFFERED DAMAGE FROM UPROOTED TREES FALLING ON THEM.”
• Jay County, IN (near Boundary City) · Tornado F1 · $300,000
  “THIS TORNADO COMPLETELY DESTROYED A NEW MODULAR HOME. RIGHT ACROSS THE ROAD...TWO OTHER HOUSES WERE DAMAGED AND A BARN WAS DESTROYED. SEVERAL OTHER HOMES, AN OLD SCHOOL, AND A CHURCH SUFFERED MINOR TO MODERATE DAMAGE. MANY TREES AND POWER LINES WERE DOWN AS A RESULT OF THIS STORM.”

Event narratives from NWS Storm Data, shortened. Up to six per day, chosen by deaths, injuries, damage and size.

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), Storm Events Database, as entered by National Weather Service offices; data through July 31, 2026. Damage is in dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation.

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