Storm reports for December 28, 2005

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On December 28, 2005, 138 hail, 20 damaging-wind and 12 tornado reports were logged across 9 states. The largest hail reported was 4.25″ (grapefruit size) in Sumter County, GA.

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 (138)

Damage, injuries and deaths

National Weather Service offices recorded about $3.4 million in property damage from hail, thunderstorm wind and tornadoes across the US on this storm day (177 events in 9 states). Injuries and deaths are those the events caused directly.

What the National Weather Service wrote

• Troup County, GA (near La Grange) · Hail 2.75″ · $1.5 million
  “Numerous reports of very large hail were received from the public across a large part of central Troup county from west of LaGrange near West Point Lake east to Mountville along the eastern border of the county. Many of the hail reports were of golf ball to baseball-sized hail.”
• Laurens County, GA (near Dublin) · Tornado F1 · $450,000
  “The Laurens County Emergency Management Director confirmed that an F1 tornado touched down in the Ben Hall Lake area, approximately seven miles northeast of Dublin, and continued on an east-northeastward track to near the town of Lovett in extreme northeast Laurens county, then into extreme western…”
• Bacon County, GA (near Alma Bacon Co Arpt) · Tornado F0 · $200,000
  “Near White pine Highway and Sessoms Rd. Tornado touched down uprooting oak trees with one in the side of a house collapsing back porch. A second house was damaged with the roof ripped off. A nearby mobile home was pushed off its foundation.”
• Dooly County, GA (near Drayton) · Hail 1.75″ · $150,000
  “The Georgia State Patrol reported a large swath of hail across the southern part of the county. The hail was as large as golf balls in the Vienna area.”
• Wilcox County, GA (near Pitts) · Tornado F0 · $125,000
  “The Wilcox County 911 Center reported, and which was later confirmed by the Wilcox County Emergency Management Director, that an F0 tornado had touched down north-northwest of Pitts and traveled east-northeast across for approximately 2.5 miles. The path width was 50 yards.”
• Spalding County, GA (near Orchard Hill) · Hail 1.75″ · $100,000
  “The public reported golf ball-sized hail.”

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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