Hail in Vermont

Events

836

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Damage

$1.0 million

• Flash Flooding and Flood in Vermont, May 26 to 27, 2011$11 million · 2.5 in hail · 83 eventsA surface low as well as upper atmospheric energy traveled along a quasi-stationary boundary across northern New York and Vermont during the afternoon and evening of May 26th.
• Tornado and Hail in Vermont, August 8, 1983$2.5 million · F2 · 5 events
• Tornado and Hail in Vermont, May 31, 1998$697,000 · F2 · 9 eventsDuring the morning hours of May 31, a strong low pressure system over the upper Great Lakes pushed a warm front across eastern New York and western New England. This set the stage for a major severe weather outbreak in southern Vermont.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Vermont, July 6, 2011$1.6 million · 1 in hail · 56 eventsA cold front and upper atmospheric disturbance moved across a warm, moist unstable air mass across northern New York and Vermont during the afternoon of July 6th.
• Flash Flood and Hail in Vermont, July 21, 2010$1.8 million · 2 in hail · 48 eventsOn July 21st, a developing surface low across the Great Lakes traveled along a stationary boundary draped across the North Country. Surface conditions became increasingly unstable during the afternoon with temperatures in the 80s and dewpoints in the 60s and lower 70s.
• Tornado and Flash Flooding in Vermont, May 28 to 29, 2012$1.2 million · EF0 · 53 eventsA warm front moved across Vermont during the morning hours of May 29th, which lead to numerous thunderstorms with heavy rain, damaging lightning and some isolated large hail and strong winds.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Vermont, August 25, 2007$1.9 million · 1.5 in hail · 40 eventsA very warm, humid and unstable airmass was located across Vermont during the afternoon of the 25th, with temperatures in the upper 80s to lower 90s and dewpoints around 70 degrees.
• Tornadoes and Hail in Vermont, July 18, 2008$775,000 · EF1 · 21 eventsSeveral mid-atmospheric impulses traveled along a stationary boundary across northern Vermont during the early afternoon and evening hours of July 18th.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Vermont, August 16, 2007$1.3 million · 1.5 in hail · 29 eventsScattered thunderstorms developed in a moderately unstable airmass across the Champlain Valley of New York during the afternoon of the 16th.
• Flash Flooding and Lakeshore Flood in Vermont, May 4 to 5, 2018$1.5 million · 1.5 in hail · 26 eventsAn energetic storm system moved from the Great Lakes across the St. Lawrence Valley into Ontario/Quebec during the afternoon and evening hours of May 4th. Instability was marginal for thunderstorm development during the evening hours with thunderstorms ahead of a cold front.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Vermont, July 4, 2012$860,000 · 1 in hail · 37 eventsA moderately strong upper level disturbance ahead of a surface cold front moved across southern Quebec during the afternoon and evening hours of July 4th.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Vermont, June 10, 2008$670,000 · 1 in hail · 39 eventsA very energetic mid-atmospheric disturbance moved across the Great Lakes during the afternoon and evening of June 10th. This developed a surface low along a cold front, which moved across Vermont during the afternoon and evening hours.
• Hail and Damaging Wind in Vermont, July 18, 200612 injured · $35,000 · 1 in hail · 2 eventsA surface cold front and a strong mid-level atmospheric disturbance moved into a moderately unstable airmass across northern Vermont around midday on the 18th, which resulted in scattered thunderstorms.
• Tornado and Hail in Vermont, June 13, 1961$25,000 · F2 · 2 events
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Vermont, May 26, 20101 injured · $385,000 · 1 in hail · 32 eventsOn May 26th, record warmth combined with a westward moving backdoor surface cold front from eastern Quebec-Maine-New Hampshire and a mid-atmospheric disturbance that moved south from Quebec to produce numerous thunderstorms in the northern Champlain Valley during the evening…
• Flash Flooding and Hail in Vermont, May 17, 2025$806,000 · 1.75 in hail · 22 eventsA weak area of low pressure and associated front moved across northern NY and Vermont during the afternoon and evening hours of May 17th. This system moved across a relatively unstable airmass across the region that resulted in numerous showers and thunderstorms.
• Flash Flooding and Hail in Vermont, July 10, 2025$1.4 million · 1 in hail · 10 eventsA weak cold front slowly moved across northern NY and VT during the afternoon and evening hours of July 10th.
• Flash Flooding and Hail in Vermont, June 28, 2016$1.7 million · 0.75 in hail · 4 eventsA cold front moves across a marginally unstable air mass during the afternoon of June 28th developing thunderstorms in the Adirondacks of New York that eventually moved into the Champlain Valley and elsewhere in Vermont.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Vermont, September 11 to 12, 2013$360,000 · 1.75 in hail · 31 eventsA weak area of low pressure traveling along a stationary front, draped across NY and VT, embedded in an unseasonably warm and unstable air mass resulted in a series of thunderstorms that moved across Vermont during the late afternoon and evening.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Vermont, July 8, 2014$704,000 · 60 kt wind · 16 eventsA surface cold front and very strong mid-level disturbance moved across a highly unstable air mass across New York during the late afternoon and evening of July 8th before traversing Vermont during the evening hours.
• Flash Flood and Flood in Vermont, July 19 to 20, 2015$1.0 million · 1 in hail · 8 eventsA weak surface low tracked across Quebec province with its associated warm and cold front moving across Vermont during the afternoon, evening of July 19th and early morning hours of July 20th.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Vermont, May 18, 20171 injured · $395,000 · 1.5 in hail · 19 eventsRecord setting heat set the stage for an moderately unstable air mass, while a mid-level atmospheric disturbance provided the forcing and strong winds to develop scattered thunderstorms by late afternoon into early evening, some of which produced damaging winds and hail.
• Tornado and Hail in Vermont, June 5, 20102 injured · $95,000 · EF1 · 12 eventsA weak surface low traveled along a slow moving cold front across northern Vermont during the afternoon of June 5th.
• Tornado and Hail in Vermont, April 16, 2026$275,000 · EF1 · 4 eventsA stationary frontal boundary was draped across northern NY east across central VT and New England during the afternoon of April 16th. A weak area of low pressure was traversing this frontal boundary as well.
• Tornado and Hail in Vermont, May 9, 2009$175,000 · EF1 · 10 eventsOn May 9th, a surface low and cold front moved from the Great Lakes across northern New York and Vermont, along a stationary boundary draped across the Adirondacks and central Vermont.

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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.