Storm reports for May 20, 2006

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On May 20, 2006, 175 hail, 66 damaging-wind and 2 tornado reports were logged across 11 states. The largest hail reported was 4.00″ (grapefruit size) in Rhea County, TN.

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 (175)

Damage, injuries and deaths

National Weather Service offices recorded about $1.5 million in property damage from hail, thunderstorm wind and tornadoes across the US on this storm day (245 events in 11 states). Injuries and deaths are those the events caused directly.

What the National Weather Service wrote

• Gilmer County, GA (near Ellijay) · Hail 2.75″ · $400,000
  “Numerous reports of large hail were received from the Gilmer County Emergency Management Director and the public across Gilmer county as a thunderstorm with a large and long lasting swath of golf ball to baseball and orange-sized hail tracked from the northwest corner to the southeast corner of the…”
• Lubbock County, TX (near Idalou) · Thunderstorm wind 75 mph · $275,000
  “A National Weather Service damage survey and post-event analysis indicated that damaging thunderstorm microbursts resulted in a second round of severe winds in the Idalou vicinity just before 17:30 CST.”
• Towns County, GA (near Alexanders Mill) · Hail 1.75″ · $160,000
  “The public reported quarter to golf-ball sized hail. This was the third hail storm to affect the county during the same evening.”
• Union County, GA (near Owltown) · Hail 0.75″ · $130,000
  “The public reported penny-sized hail along U.S. Highway 129 in the southeast part of the county.”
• Lubbock County, TX (near Lubbock) · Thunderstorm wind 62 mph · $100,000
  “A cluster of high based thunderstorms produced a series of microbursts from near Lubbock International Airport to Idalou. At 15:28 CST a 62 MPH gust was recorded by the Lubbock International Airport Automated Surface Observing System as the initial downburst activity began just north of Lubbock.”
• Fannin County, GA (near Epworth) · Hail 1.75″ · $98,000
  “Yet another large hail storm tracked across western and northern Fannin county. The public reported golf ball-sized hail north of Blue Ridge near Epworth, while penny-sized hail was reported further southeast in the Mineral Bluff and Morganton areas.”

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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