Storm reports for August 1, 2013

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On August 1, 2013, 114 hail, 96 damaging-wind and 3 tornado reports were logged across 18 states. The largest hail reported was 2.75″ (baseball size) in Cherry 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 (114)

Damage, injuries and deaths

National Weather Service offices recorded about $16.2 million in property damage, $61.3 million in crop damage, 1 injury and 1 death from hail, thunderstorm wind and tornadoes across the US on this storm day (213 events in 18 states). Injuries and deaths are those the events caused directly.

What the National Weather Service wrote

• Rutherford County, NC (near Gilkey) · Thunderstorm wind 58 mph · $15,000 · 1 death · 1 injury
  “Several trees were blown down in the Green Hill community. One large tree fell on a vehicle traveling along highway 64/74 near Green Hill, destroying the vehicle and causing serious injuries to the two occupants. The 66-year-old male driver died from his injuries several days later.”
• Campbell County, WY (near Wright) · Hail 1.75″ · $10 million
  “Large amounts of ping pong to golf ball size hail fell around Wright. Portions of town had hail drifts three to five feet high. The wind-driven hail caused extensive damage to homes and vehicles.”
• Lincoln County, NE (near North Platte) · Thunderstorm wind 110 mph · $1 million
  “Storm damage survey observed damage to homes, business and schools as numerous trees were uprooted, large tree limbs snapped or broken. The downed trees brought down numerous power lines that caused power outages between Buffalo Bill to Poplar streets.”
• Clay County, NE (near Edgar) · Thunderstorm wind 81 mph · $1 million
  “A grain bin was blown onto train tracks and was hit by a train. A railroad employee reported that machinery from Grand Island was brought in to remove the bin from the tracks. This apparently took rather large machinery to perform this task.”
• Clay County, NE (near Edgar) · Thunderstorm wind 81 mph · $1 million
  “A very large and healthy tree snapped at the base and fell onto the roof of a home. The base of the trunk was conservatively estimated at 2 feet in diameter.”
• Duval County, FL (near Cosmo) · Tornado EF1 · $500,000
  “The sea breezes and several outflow boundaries converged over east Jacksonville Thursday afternoon around 4 pm...then the multicell cluster that developed drifted slowly eastward offshore of the Atlantic coast through 5:30 pm.”

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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