Storm reports for July 29, 2009

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On July 29, 2009, 57 hail, 129 damaging-wind and 9 tornado reports were logged across 23 states. The largest hail reported was 2.75″ (baseball size) in Prowers County, CO.

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 (57)

Damage, injuries and deaths

National Weather Service offices recorded about $94.8 million in property damage, $20.2 million in crop damage and 12 injuries from hail, thunderstorm wind and tornadoes across the US on this storm day (195 events in 23 states). Injuries and deaths are those the events caused directly.

What the National Weather Service wrote

• Pueblo County, CO (near Cedarwood) · Hail 1.75″ · $90 million · 7 injuries
  “The city of Pueblo was particularly hard hit with golf ball to tennis ball size hail. Damage estimates were around $110 million to vehicles, structures, and crops.”
• Childress County, TX (near (Cds)Childress Arpt) · Thunderstorm wind 102 mph · $2 million · 3 injuries
  “A complex of severe thunderstorms produced extreme winds and resulted in significant damage in the Childress vicinity during the 21:00 CST hour of the 29th. The Automated Surface Observing System at the Childress Municipal Airport recorded a 102 mph thunderstorm wind gust at 21:29 CST.”
• Monroe County, PA (near Bossardsville) · Tornado EF2 · $1 million · 2 injuries
  “An EF-2 tornado with estimated maximum wind speeds of 120 mph touched down and affected Hamilton and Stroud Townships. The highest wind speeds and worst reported damage occurred on Middle Road in Hamilton Township and Stroudsmoor Road in Stroud Township.”
• Sussex County, NJ (near Libertyville) · Tornado EF2 · $800,000
  “An EF-2 tornado touched down in Wantage Township at about 248 p.m. EDT on the 29th. It was the first confirmed tornado in Sussex County since August of 1990, the first tornado of F2 or EF2 strength ever in the county since records started in 1950 and the first tornado to reach EF2 or F2 strength in…”
• Terry County, TX (near Needmore) · Thunderstorm wind 60 mph · $200,000
  “Thunderstorm winds resulted in a swath of damage from the Needmore and Meadow areas of northern Terry County southward to near Brownfield. Several buildings at the Needmore Gin sustained heavy roof damage, and the steeple was blown off of a church in Meadow.”
• Burlington County, NJ (near Willingboro) · Thunderstorm wind 60 mph · $100,000
  “A severe thunderstorm tore down scores of trees in Willingboro Township. A few fell on homes, vehicles and wires and damaged them. A family on Pennypack Drive was displaced because of damage from a downed tree.”

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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