Storm reports for February 27, 2000

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On February 27, 2000, 3 hail, 4 damaging-wind and 4 tornado reports were logged across 2 states. The largest hail reported was 0.75″ (penny size) in Madera County, CA.

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 (3)

Damage, injuries and deaths

National Weather Service offices recorded about $34,000 in property damage, $75,000 in crop damage and 4 injuries from hail, thunderstorm wind and tornadoes across the US on this storm day (11 events in 2 states). Injuries and deaths are those the events caused directly.

What the National Weather Service wrote

• Madera County, CA (near Madera) · Hail 0.75″ · $30,000 · 4 injuries
  “Hail from the day's severe weather activity lead to a multiple-car accident on heavily travelled State Highway 99 on the northbound on-ramp from Avenue 12 in Madera County.”
• Clinch County, GA (near Homerville) · Thunderstorm wind · $3,000
  “Large trees and power lines were blown down.”
• Fresno County, CA (near (Fch) Chandler Af) · Hail 0.75″
  “No damage reported. Large hail occurred in the a rural area that has primarily fallow crop land so minimal number of deciduous crops were exposed to damage.”
• Fresno County, CA (near Sanger) · Hail 0.75″
  “Larger hail damaged strawberry fields west of Sanger. Actual size not reported but presence of damage indicates larger hail present. One other Severe Thunderstorm warning was issued late in the afternoon (at 1610 PST) that was based on a meso-cyclone radar signature in the vicinity of Kingsburg.”
• Madera County, CA (near Madera) · Tornado F0
  “Tornado path through rural area over pasture land and fallow crop land. Tornado from a cell on the northern segment of a bowed line of convection. The tornado was a straight-up tube shape on the ground for 10 minutes.”

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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