Storm reports for August 30, 2009

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On August 30, 2009, 3 hail, 5 damaging-wind and 2 tornado reports were logged across 6 states. The largest hail reported was 1.00″ (quarter size) in Las Animas 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

Hail reports (3)

Damage, injuries and deaths

National Weather Service offices recorded about $615,000 in property damage and 3 injuries from hail, thunderstorm wind and tornadoes across the US on this storm day (10 events in 6 states). Injuries and deaths are those the events caused directly.

What the National Weather Service wrote

• Galveston County, TX (near Galveston) · Tornado EF1 · $500,000 · 3 injuries
  “The tornado began as a waterspout moved onto the beach near 29th Street and Seawall Blvd. A police cruiser had its windows blown out and the roof of a souvenir shop at 29th and Seawall was blown off. Further inland, a house on stilts was blown over and the roof of a mobile home was peeled back.”
• Berkeley County, SC (near Ladson) · Thunderstorm wind 70 mph · $50,000
  “A National Weather Service Damage Survey Team evaluated damage which occurred at Charleston Southern University, near College Park, South Carolina. The survey teams findings included, three large trees and numerous large tree limbs were blown down and an air conditioning unit sustained structural…”
• Gwinnett County, GA (near Gloster) · Thunderstorm wind 58 mph · $50,000
  “WSB Television of Atlanta reported at least seven trees were down in the Lawrenceville and Grayson areas as a small, yet intense, thunderstorm moved through that area. A home on Oak Ridge Way in Lawrenceville suffered extensive damage when a tree fell on the structure.”
• Aransas County, TX (near Rockport) · Tornado EF0 · $10,000
  “Damage was confined to power lines blown down north of Aransas Pass, along Highway 35.”
• Missoula County, MT (near Missoula) · Thunderstorm wind 49 mph · $4,000
  “Thunderstorms that moved from the Bitterroot Valley northward to the Missoula Valley, blew down two rotten cottonwood trees in Hamilton, and three trees in the city of Missoula.”
• Charleston County, SC (near Deer Park) · Thunderstorm wind 58 mph · $1,000
  “A trained weather spotter reported a tree down on Interstate 26, near Ladson, South Carolina.”

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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