Storm reports for June 15, 2008

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On June 15, 2008, 292 hail, 292 damaging-wind and 3 tornado reports were logged across 19 states. The largest hail reported was 2.75″ (baseball size) in Seward County, NE.

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 (292)

Damage, injuries and deaths

National Weather Service offices recorded about $20.6 million in property damage, $3.6 million in crop damage and 7 injuries from hail, thunderstorm wind and tornadoes across the US on this storm day (587 events in 19 states). Injuries and deaths are those the events caused directly.

What the National Weather Service wrote

• Childress County, TX (near Childress) · Thunderstorm wind 81 mph · $16 million · 6 injuries
  “An extreme convective wind event combined with large hail resulted in widespread and significant damage in the Childress vicinity during the evening hours of Father's Day the 15th.||The Texas Tech University West Texas Mesonet site northeast of the city initially recorded a 58 mph wind gust at…”
• McLean County, IL (near Hudson) · Thunderstorm wind 60 mph · $40,000 · 1 injury
  “Numerous tree limbs were blown down. One tree limb fell on a person causing a minor head injury.”
• St. Joseph County, IN (near Indian Vlg) · Hail 2.75″ · $1 million
  “Numerous reports of hail as large as baseballs were received in the city of South Bend. Numerous vehicles suffered mainly dents and scratches but some broken windows were reported.”
• Childress County, TX (near Childress) · Hail 1.75″ · $1 million
  “Up to golf ball size hail combined with extreme downburst winds to result in widespread damage across the city of Childress and a number of surrounding agricultural fields. Wind-driven hail destroyed approximately ninety percent of the east-facing windows in the city of nearly 7,000 residents.”
• Harper County, KS (near Attica) · Thunderstorm wind 81 mph · $250,000
  “Strong winds blew over five double stacked railroad cars. An estimated 40 containers were blown with both tracks of the railroad being blocked. The railroad containers were full of paper, cereal and other non hazardous materials.”
• Cook County, IL (near Lyons) · Thunderstorm wind 58 mph · $200,000
  “A live power line was blown down onto a metal fence. The fence began conducting electricity and sparks jumped from the fence to the aluminum siding of a house. The sparks started a fire which destroyed the house.”

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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