Storm reports for June 7, 2020

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On June 7, 2020, 92 hail, 136 damaging-wind and 11 tornado reports were logged across 8 states. The largest hail reported was 2.50″ (tennis ball size) in McIntosh County, ND. Radar estimated hail of 1 inch or larger over 2,727 square miles containing about 4,200 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 (92)

Damage, injuries and deaths

National Weather Service offices recorded about $602,000 in property damage from hail, thunderstorm wind and tornadoes across the US on this storm day (239 events in 8 states). Injuries and deaths are those the events caused directly.

What the National Weather Service wrote

• McIntosh County, ND (near Ashley) · Thunderstorm wind 90 mph · $250,000
  “Six structures on a farmstead were either damaged or destroyed by severe thunderstorm winds. The structures were mainly pole barns, but one was a cinder block silo which may have been stuck by other debris. The debris was spread for one-quarter mile to the northeast.”
• Morton County, ND (near Flasher) · Thunderstorm wind 90 mph · $150,000
  “A home sustained substantial damage due to straight line winds. Approximately one-half of the roofing on the west side of the home blew off, with much of the remaining metal roof covering on the west side also being blown off.”
• Dickey County, ND (near Ellendale) · Thunderstorm wind 90 mph · $150,000
  “A 130 foot by 300 foot pole barn structure sustained substantial damage from straight line winds. Almost all of the roofing structure collapsed, along with portions of the walls. The debris was spread to the north of the structure.”
• Dickey County, ND (near Ellendale Arpt) · Thunderstorm wind 70 mph · $50,000
  “Multiple trees and at least one power pole blew down in the city of Ellendale.”
• Brown County, SD (near Winship) · Thunderstorm wind 90 mph
  “Estimated ninety mph winds caused a partial loss of a barn's roof along with a collapsed wall. The winds also caused the collapse of a machine shop's door, house shingle damage, uprooted cottonwood trees, with some cottonwood trees snapped at the base.”
• Hyde County, SD (near Holabird) · Thunderstorm wind 81 mph
  “An estimated eighty mph wind took the roof off a 60 by 100 foot machine shed and caved the wall in on a barn.”

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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