Hail, Windsor
- When
- April 23, 3:24 PM EST
- Where
- Windsor County, Ludlow
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 43.400, -72.700
Hail in Vermont, April 23, 1996
A cold front moved across Vermont during Tuesday (4/23/96). A lightning strike in southern Caledonia county at 4 PM EST resulted in widespread power outages in the southern portion of the county.
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 BTV wrote it up.
A cold front moved across Vermont during Tuesday (4/23/96). Thunderstorms moved across Vermont during Tuesday afternoon and night with locally heavy rain, gusty winds and some hail.Dime size hail was reported in Ludlow, Vermont (Windsor County) and localized street flooding occurred in the town of ludlow (Windsor county) between 330 PM EST and 4 PM EST due to thunderstorm rains with a few dirt roads washed out.A lightning strike in southern Caledonia county at 4 PM EST resulted in widespread power outages in the southern portion of the county.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, April 23, 1996
- High Wind in Maryland, April 23, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, April 23, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, April 23, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, April 23, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, April 23, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, April 23, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, April 23, 1996
- Flash Flood in Washington, April 23, 1996
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, April 23, 1996
More
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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: 5552085.