A potent upper level shortwave and associated surface cold front pushed through Central and Southern New Hampshire on the afternoon of August 5th. This allowed for a few strong thunderstorms to develop that brought large hail and damaging winds.
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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.
The episode as NWS GYX wrote it up.
A potent upper level shortwave and associated surface cold front pushed through Central and Southern New Hampshire on the afternoon of August 5th. This allowed for a few strong thunderstorms to develop that brought large hail and damaging winds. One storm that crossed Cheshire County, brought some of the biggest hail stones of the summer severe season to the state.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Gray, ME wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 4, 6:59 PM EST, 17 hours 58 minutes earlier.
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</html>The Albany radar (KENX), 142 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:56 UTC.
8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A severe thunderstorm dropped hail the size of golf balls in Westminster.
Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed tress on Surry and Louder Rd.
A severe thunderstorm dropped hail the size of ping pong balls in Sullivan.
A severe thunderstorm dropped hail the size of half dollars that accumulated on the ground and cracked a few car windows.
Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed a tree across Brown Rd.
Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed three large trees on State Route NH-137 that closed the road.
A severe thunderstorm dropped hail the size of ping pong balls in Hancock.
Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed a tree onto wires in New Boston.
Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees and wires near Halls Hill Rd. and Horne Rd. in Alton.
Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed a tree near Youngtown Rd. in Alton.
Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees on Old Bay Rd. and Ham Rd. in New Durham.
Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed a tree and pole in Farmington.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New Hampshire in 2024Every state in 2024This day in weather historyWarnings in New Hampshire, August 2024
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1214002, 1214006, 1214003, 1214004, 1214007, 1214008, 1214005, 1214009, 1214012, 1214011, 1214013, 1214010.