Storm reports for July 6, 2022

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On July 6, 2022, 58 hail, 264 damaging-wind and 6 tornado reports were logged across 18 states. The largest hail reported was 2.75″ (baseball size) in Phillips County, MT. Radar estimated hail of 1 inch or larger over 3,517 square miles containing about 27,000 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 (58)

Damage, injuries and deaths

National Weather Service offices recorded about $6.3 million in property damage, $36,000 in crop damage and 2 injuries from hail, thunderstorm wind and tornadoes across the US on this storm day (328 events in 18 states). Injuries and deaths are those the events caused directly.

What the National Weather Service wrote

• Clermont County, OH (near Goshen) · Tornado EF2 · $3 million · 2 injuries
  “The tornado touched down along Blue Sky Drive where several barns were damaged and multiple trees were uprooted and snapped. Additional damage consisting of dozens of snapped and uprooted trees occurred just southeast of the Huntley Road and Goshen Road intersection.||As the tornado approached…”
• Staunton city, VA (near Staunton) · Thunderstorm wind 98 mph · $1.2 million
  “Hundreds of trees blew down around the City of Staunton. Although most of the damage was consistent with wind gusts of 60 to 80 mph, there was one spot in the unit block of Morris Mill Road that had significantly more severe damage.”
• Franklin County, NC (near Raynor) · Thunderstorm wind 58 mph · $1 million
  “There was significant damage to various aircraft at the Triangle North Executive Airport, including a glider belonging to the Franklin Composite Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol. A few hangers were also damaged.”
• Brown County, OH (near Vera Cruz) · Tornado EF1 · $500,000
  “The tornado touched down west of Woodward Road in Brown County, affecting areas of|Woodland Drive before crossing State Route 131. At this point the tornado was in its formative stages, with mainly EF-0 rated damage across State Route 131 and Black Oak Road.”
• Clermont County, OH (near Branch Hill) · Tornado EF1 · $100,000
  “The initial tornado damage consisted of uprooted trees and damaged fences, just south of the intersection of Oriskany Drive and Almahurst Lane. Damage continued along the lake shore of the community lake.”
• Burke County, NC (near Burke Chapel) · Thunderstorm wind 81 mph · $50,000
  “Public reported multiple trees blown down with one on a trailer, part of the roof removed from a house, and a destroyed barn on Buzz Lowman St. Media reported numerous trees blown down nearby on Old Laurel Rd and significant damage to the roof of a manufacturing building on Claude Britton Rd.”

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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