Storm reports for April 13, 2020

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On April 13, 2020, 3 hail, 170 damaging-wind and 24 tornado reports were logged across 11 states. The largest hail reported was 1.00″ (quarter size) in Fairfax County, VA. Radar estimated hail of 1 inch or larger over 5 square miles containing about 1,700 homes.

Storm day runs 7 a.m. to 7 a.m. Eastern (12:00–12:00 UTC), the convention the Storm Prediction Center uses. Colored areas are NOAA MRMS radar estimates of the largest hail (MESH) over the day, lower 48 states only; radar overestimates and underestimates size, so read it with the ground reports.

Storm reports by state

Cities with the largest radar-estimated hail

Counties by homes inside 1″+ radar-estimated hail

Homes are 2020 Census housing units and people are 2020 Census residents, counted by block group where its center of population lies under radar-estimated hail of 1 inch or larger.

Hail reports (3)

Damage, injuries and deaths

National Weather Service offices recorded about $2.1 million in property damage from hail, thunderstorm wind and tornadoes across the US on this storm day (198 events in 11 states). Injuries and deaths are those the events caused directly.

What the National Weather Service wrote

• Montgomery County, MD (near Olney) · Thunderstorm wind 86 mph · $500,000
  “Numerous (hundreds) of trees (healthy pine and oak trees) were uprooted or snapped from near Norbeck Coutry Club to Winter Laurel Drive in Olney. Some trees fell onto houses and cars.”
• Montgomery County, MD (near Derwood) · Thunderstorm wind 69 mph · $300,000
  “Multiple trees were blown down along Buena Vista Drive, a few of which fell onto homes resulting in structural damage.”
• Carroll County, MD (near Frizzellburg) · Tornado EF1 · $300,000
  “A brief EF1 tornado touched down in the 2000 block of Leeward|Drive between Westminster and Taneytown in rural Carroll County, |Maryland during the early afternoon hours of Monday, April 13th, |2020.||The tornado developed on the north end of a small surge in the |line over northwestern Carroll…”
• Pender County, NC (near Montague) · Tornado EF1 · $150,000
  “A tornado was spotted near the intersection of Highway 421 and |Blueberry Road, snapping a few 16 diameter pine trees just west of |Highway 421. It moved to the northeast across a tributary of the |Northeast Cape Fear River, strengthened as it moved along Clarks |Landing Road.”
• Georgetown County, SC (near New Hope) · Tornado EF1 · $100,000
  “The tornado formed near Sampit, SC just south of Saints-Delight Rd. It crossed |Powell Rd near Anna Dr. causing damage to power lines and trees. The tornado |moved across a swampy area just south of Sampit then crossed Hwy 17 alt/Hwy 521|causing damage to an auto repair shop, a small double-wide…”
• Pender County, NC (near Bells Xrds) · Tornado EF1 · $100,000
  “A tornado touched down along Clarks Landing Road near Misty Meadows |Lane. It snapped a power pole and several trees, on both sides of the |road, and caused minor roof damage to a few homes on the east side of |Clarks Landing Road.”

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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