Dust Devil, Cheshire
- When
- May 26, 1:30 PM EST
- Where
- Cheshire forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 42.919, -72.251 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Dust Devil in New Hampshire, May 26, 1996
A dust devil moved across a corn field and passed through a few trees before picking up a 6-foot picnic table and 20-pound bags of potting soil and dropping them a short distance away.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS BOX wrote it up.
A dust devil moved across a corn field and passed through a few trees before picking up a 6-foot picnic table and 20-pound bags of potting soil and dropping them a short distance away.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 dust devil. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Dust Devil
- A small rotating column of dust from surface heating that caused damage or injury.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes in Kansas, May 26, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, May 26, 1996
- High Surf in Hawaii, May 26 to 27, 1996
- Tornadoes in Oklahoma, May 26, 1996
- Tornadoes in Kansas, May 26, 1996
- Tornado in Kansas, May 26, 1996
- Flooding in Iowa, May 26 to 31, 1996
- Tornadoes in Kansas, May 26, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, May 26, 1996
- Tornado in Kansas, May 26, 1996
- Tornado in Kansas, May 26, 1996
- Hail in Oklahoma, May 26, 1996
More
Every storm in New Hampshire in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in New Hampshire, May 1996
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5557550.