Storm reports for May 26, 2011

On the afternoon of May 26, 2011, softball size hail, 4.25 inches across, fell around Morganton in Fannin County, Georgia, badly damaging vehicles.¹ NOAA's Storm Events Database lists $1.3 million in property damage from that hail.¹ In Gilmer County, baseball size hail damaged vehicles between Ellijay and Cherry Log and damaged homes across the county, with $775,000 in damage listed.² Between about 5 and 6 p.m. EST, wind downed trees in Gwinnett, Fulton and Cobb counties. In Gwinnett County, trees fell on two homes in Snellville and one each in Duluth and Norcross, with $350,000 in damage listed.^3,4,5 Falling trees killed two people in a car near Buckhead in Fulton County and a man clearing a downed tree in Cobb County.^4,5

At 3:40 p.m. CST, an EF3 tornado touched down east of Louisiana Highway 40 in St. Tammany Parish and injured 4 people.⁶ Two homes lost 90 percent of their roofs and had some exterior walls collapse, and three more homes and 10 to 15 mobile homes had significant damage.⁶ Between 8:20 and 8:45 p.m. EDT, an EF1 tornado with winds near 110 mph skipped along a 17-mile path from Cressona to Kepner in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, damaging about 20 homes, 4 heavily, and 12 barns and outbuildings.⁷

That evening, flash flooding filled much of downtown Barre, Vermont, and many homes and businesses along Route 302 in Barre, and displaced about 200 people from a mobile home park. The database lists $5 million in damage in Washington County.⁸