Storm reports for June 12, 2004

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On June 12, 2004, 240 hail, 258 damaging-wind and 17 tornado reports were logged across 21 states. The largest hail reported was 2.75″ (baseball size) in Sedgwick County, KS.

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 (240)

Damage, injuries and deaths

National Weather Service offices recorded about $9.7 million in property damage, $4.6 million in crop damage, 3 injuries and 1 death from hail, thunderstorm wind and tornadoes across the US on this storm day (514 events in 20 states). Injuries and deaths are those the events caused directly.

What the National Weather Service wrote

• Benton County, MO (near Warsaw) · Thunderstorm wind 81 mph · 1 death
  “Two men were fishing on Truman Lake near Warsaw while a squall line rapidly pushed across the lake and swamped their boat. Vance Wiles age 40, drowned as he tried to swim to shore without a life jacket. The other passenger Mark Johnson age 37, was wearing a life jacket and survived the accident.”
• Sumner County, KS (near Mulvane) · Tornado F3 · $500,000 · 2 injuries
  “The tornado started moving NE before becoming influenced by the outflow of the storm and darted back to the SE. The tornado ripped the roof off one home and blew out two walls and a roof of another.”
• Union County, IA (near Afton) · Thunderstorm wind 58 mph · $2,000 · 1 injury
  “A tree was blown over and injured one person. He received a punctured lung and head injuries.”
• Gentry County, MO (near Albany) · Hail 1.75″ · $5.6 million
  “Windshield damage to cars. Roofs on many houses and businesses had shingle damage...along with broken windows”
• Shawnee County, KS (near Topeka) · Thunderstorm wind 74 mph · $1 million
  “Strong winds moved across Topeka doing considerable damage. Numerous large tree branches were blown down. A K-DOT communications tower was blown down onto an apartment complex, but no injuries were reported. But significant damage was done to the apartment complex.”
• Knox County, TX (near Munday) · Thunderstorm wind 75 mph · $750,000
  “Strong wind gusts caused damage across the town of Munday with the worst damage occurring at the Munday High School. The entire roof of the field house was taken off and dropped about a half a block away. A sign on the building was destroyed.”

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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