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Storm reports for March 19, 2018

NOAA recorded 89 hail reports, 44 wind reports and 20 tornado reports in 5 states on March 19, 2018.

in 5 states
153
Storm reports
About 39 miles from Huntsville, AL
5.38 in
Largest hail
About 5 miles from Augusta, GA
100 mph
Highest gust
Highest rating EF3, about 54 miles from Birmingham, AL
20
Tornado reports
Sources: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports; damage surveys from the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit

Hail, inches

  • 0.75
  • 1
  • 1.5
  • 2
  • 2.5
  • 3+

Dots: reports.

  • Wind report
  • Tornado and its path
  • Surveyed tornado path
  • Surveyed wind damage

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, final severe weather database (from NOAA's Storm Data). Report day: 12:00 UTC on March 19, 2018 to 12:00 UTC the next day. Times are Central.

Select a dot or a path for the report. NWS survey teams walked the shaded paths after the storm; each is drawn at the widest width they found, so it can look wider than the damage at any one spot.

What happened

On March 19, 2018, storms dropped a swath of large hail from northwest to southeast Cullman County, Alabama, with many reports of hail the size of tennis balls or larger.1 A stone found near Walter measured 5.38 inches across, and NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information certified it as Alabama's largest hailstone on record.1,2 Baseball-size hail in Cullman damaged vehicles, roofs and other structures, and many homes had tarps on their roofs the next day.3

An EF3 tornado with peak winds of 150 mph tracked 34.2 miles through Jacksonville in Calhoun County into Cleburne County from 8:23 to 9:12 p.m. CDT and injured 4 people.4,5 In Jacksonville it removed most of the roof and the top floor of two apartment buildings, significantly damaged several buildings on the Jacksonville State University campus, and left scores of homes uninhabitable.5

In Georgia, an EF2 tornado with 120 mph winds hit a subdivision in South Fulton between Fairburn and Campbellton at about 10:11 p.m. EST. More than 50 homes were damaged, at least half of them significantly, and in the worst-hit area many lost large sections of their roofs and upstairs walls.6 NOAA's Storm Events Database lists $750,000 in property damage from the tornado and $2 million from golf ball size hail near Campbellton.6,7 Around 2:29 a.m. EDT on March 20, winds estimated at 95 to 105 mph tore large sections of roofing off 4 large industrial buildings just north of Augusta's Bush Field, and part of a masonry wall collapsed on one.8

Sources

  1. 1. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 739860, hail, Cullman County, Alabama
  2. 2. NWS Huntsville: Cullman County Record Hail, March 19, 2018
  3. 3. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 739856, hail, Cullman County, Alabama
  4. 4. NWS Birmingham: March 19, 2018 Tornadoes
  5. 5. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 747007, tornado, Calhoun County, Alabama
  6. 6. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 740823, tornado, Fulton County, Georgia
  7. 7. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 743425, hail, Fulton County, Georgia
  8. 8. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 740607, thunderstorm wind, Richmond County, Georgia

Reports by hour

Hail89, most at 7 PM

Wind44, most at 6 PM

Tornado20, most at 6 PM

Reports per hour, Central time. Each row has its own scale.

Every report

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

TimeRatingWherePath
4:53 PMEF0Near 34.51, -88.21, MS0.82 mi long, 125 yd wide
5:05 PMEF0Near 34.63, -87.97, AL3.9 mi long, 120 yd wide
5:10 PMEF1Near 34.51, -87.87, AL1.21 mi long, 100 yd wide
5:21 PMEF1Near 34.50, -87.75, AL2.05 mi long, 200 yd wide
5:54 PMEF0About 50 miles from Huntsville, AL1.16 mi long, 250 yd wide
6:08 PMEF2About 35 miles from Huntsville, AL23.54 mi long, 600 yd wide
6:18 PMEF1About 38 miles from Huntsville, AL6.8 mi long, 100 yd wide
6:29 PMEF1About 31 miles from Huntsville, AL14 mi long, 550 yd wide
6:30 PMEF1About 31 miles from Huntsville, AL0.53 mi long, 200 yd wide
6:58 PMEF1About 18 miles from Huntsville, AL4.8 mi long, 150 yd wide
7:09 PMEF0About 34 miles from Huntsville, AL0.94 mi long, 100 yd wide
7:26 PMEF2About 39 miles from Huntsville, AL3.76 mi long, 690 yd wide
Show all 20 tornado reports
TimeRatingWherePath
7:50 PMEF1About 31 miles from Birmingham, AL6.43 mi long, 880 yd wide
7:50 PMEF0About 48 miles from Chattanooga, TN3.68 mi long, 150 yd wide
8:02 PMEF2About 39 miles from Birmingham, AL15.73 mi long, 2000 yd wide
8:20 PMEF1Near 34.11, -85.65, AL1.07 mi long, 400 yd wide
8:23 PMEF3About 54 miles from Birmingham, AL35.22 mi long, 2175 yd wide
9:07 PMEF0About 57 miles from Birmingham, AL0.84 mi long, 138 yd wide
9:25 PMEF1About 44 miles from Atlanta, GA1.39 mi long, 500 yd wide
10:11 PMEF2About 15 miles from Atlanta, GA0.53 mi long, 315 yd wide

By state

StateReportsHailWindTornado
Alabama85531616
Georgia5123262
Mississippi11911
Tennessee4211
Kentucky2200

Cities with reports nearby

Reports within 15 miles of the center of each city we track.

CityLargest hailHighest gustTornado reports
Atlanta, GA1.75 in52 mph0
Huntsville, AL1.75 inNone0
Augusta, GANone100 mph0

Reports are what observers recorded near a location, not a complete record of every storm. They don’t describe conditions at any building.