Golf ball-sized hail, toppled trees reported in Virginia as storms pounded mid-Atlantic
WASHINGTON – Powerful storms that moved across the mid-Atlantic on Monday, dropping large hail and produced damaging winds along the way.
Several Severe Thunderstorm Warnings were issued along the line of storms that stretched from West Virginia through the Delmarva Peninsula and into southern New Jersey. Damaging wind gusts and large hail were the primary threats with any severe storms that developed.
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Hail was reported in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania on Monday afternoon and evening. Most of the reports showed hail the size of quarters had fallen.
A FOX Weather viewer shared an image of "gumball-sized" hail that had fallen in Alexandria, Virginia. Others shared images of quarter-sized hail that fell in buckets in Brambleton, Virginia.
A video showed the hail falling like snow in Brambleton. According to M Roussey on X, formerly Twitter, the hail was the size of gumballs.
Stormy weather led to a ground stop at Washington's Dulles International Airport near Arlington, Virginia. Isaac Harris recorded a video showing hail that was reportedly dime-sized falling at the airport.
According to storm reports from the National Weather Service, the largest hail reported was in Arcola, Virginia, where golf ball-sized hail fell in Hanson Park.
Winds of more than 50 mph were reported around the Richmond, Virginia, area. That's where the NWS received several reports of trees being knocked down.
About 15,000 power outages were reported as of Monday evening, according to PowerOutage.us.
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