Storm reports for August 29, 2003

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On August 29, 2003, 5 hail, 32 damaging-wind and 3 tornado reports were logged across 12 states. The largest hail reported was 1.00″ (quarter size) in York County, PA.

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 (5)

Damage, injuries and deaths

National Weather Service offices recorded about $638,000 in property damage from hail, thunderstorm wind and tornadoes across the US on this storm day (41 events in 13 states). Injuries and deaths are those the events caused directly.

What the National Weather Service wrote

• Tompkins County, NY (near Groton) · Thunderstorm wind 81 mph · $400,000
  “Trees and wires down in the towns of Groton and Dryden. Most of the damage was withing half a mile of the village of McLean in the town of Groton. At least 15 houses sustained significant roof and porch damage from very large hardwood trees that were uprooted or had large limbs snapped off.”
• Chenango County, NY (near Beaver Meadow) · Tornado F1 · $100,000
  “An F1 tornado touched down int he town of Smyrna. The tornado first touched down on Beaver Meadow Road about 2 miles east of the village of Beaver Meadow in the southwest quarter of the town of Smyrna. The tornado tracked down a hill and across Law Road before it lifted near Hopkins Road.”
• Chenango County, NY (near South Otselic) · Thunderstorm wind 81 mph · $50,000
  “In the town of Plymouth, a mobile home was destroyed, a garage roof was torn off, and power lines came down. In the towns of Otselic, North Norwich, and New Berlin trees and wires were downed. Over 2,000 people in Chenango and Otsego Counties lost power.”
• Otsego County, NY (near Pittsfield) · Thunderstorm wind 63 mph · $15,000
  “Trees and wires down in Pittsfield, Morris, and New Lisbon.”
• Cortland County, NY (near Virgil) · Thunderstorm wind 63 mph · $5,000
  “Trees and wires downed in the towns of Cortlandville and Virgil.”
• Dorchester County, MD (near Vienna) · Thunderstorm wind 58 mph · $5,000
  “Tractor trailer blown over by winds near Route 50 and Route 331. Trees down.”

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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