On the surface June 23rd looks like a nothing day — no tornadoes anywhere, barely a wind report worth the ink. Under the two hail cores it was anything but. 99 of the day's 122 reports were stones, and two of them came down the size of a baseball.
The first core set up over the Texas Panhandle: 51 reports, 35 of them hail, topping out at a 3-inch stone near Canyon. The day's one real gust rode along with it — 85 mph down at Seymour — but make no mistake, this was an ice event, not a wind one. Three-inch hail is the size that stops being a cosmetic argument: it cracks shingle mats, splits aging wood, and leaves dents you can see from the ground on gutters and hoods.
The second core parked over eastern Colorado — and Colorado's now been hammered two days running. Of its 47 reports, all but one were hail, with another 3-inch stone at Wiggins out on the plains northeast of Denver. After Monday's 4-incher near Joes, a lot of the same country just took a second beating before the first round of roofs even got looked at.
Well north of all that, Minnesota ran its own little hail pocket — 12 reports, up to 2.5 inches near Cosmos — with a scatter of smaller stuff through Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Virginia rounding out the board.
Here's the trap with a day like this: a tornado-free, wind-quiet afternoon doesn't make the evening news, so nobody's on TV telling Panhandle or eastern-plains homeowners to go check. But a 3-inch core does the same damage whether or not a camera crew shows up. If you're anywhere around Canyon, Wiggins, or Cosmos, don't let the quiet fool you — get an inspector who'll actually walk the slopes, because this is exactly the kind of hit that surfaces as a leak long after the claim window has closed.
For the crews, it's a clean two-stop run: the Texas Panhandle around Amarillo and Canyon, then the eastern Colorado plains that are now stacking damage day over day. Colorado and Texas keep trading blows at the top of the Top States for Hail board this month. Everybody else — the state-by-state numbers are below; look for the town nearest you and see how big the stones got.