Hail, Luzerne
- When
- July 19, 1:15 PM EST
- Where
- Luzerne County, 1.38 mi S of Hazleton
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 40.950, -75.970
Hail in Pennsylvania, July 19, 2010
Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed out ahead of a cold front. Due to cloud cover and limited instability, widespread severe weather did not develop, but isolated storms produced hail across the southern Wyoming Valley.
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 BGM wrote it up.
Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed out ahead of a cold front. Due to cloud cover and limited instability, widespread severe weather did not develop, but isolated storms produced hail across the southern Wyoming Valley.
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 139 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:17 UTC.
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
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in New Jersey, July 19, 2010
- Heat in Tennessee, July 19 to 22, 2010
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 19, 2010
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, July 19, 2010
- Flash Flooding and Lightning Strike in Iowa, July 19 to 20, 2010
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Wyoming, July 19, 2010
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, July 19, 2010
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Iowa, July 19 to 20, 2010
- Flood and Hail in Massachusetts, July 19, 2010
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 19, 2010
- Excessive Heat in Kansas, July 19 to 20, 2010
- Hail in South Dakota, July 19, 2010
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: 251317.