Some days the weather picks a fight in one place. The 10th spread itself thin instead — 51 reports, and its five tornadoes came down in five different states, none of them near each other. Florida, North Carolina, a pair in Illinois, one in Iowa: a coast-to-cornbelt sprinkle of spin-ups with no center of gravity.
What there was of organized weather was wind. Missouri logged the most reports, ten, nearly all gusts around Milford, and Florida wasn't far behind with nine — seven wind, plus one of the day's tornadoes near Wesley Chapel. The hardest single gust was out west, 73 mph at Aetna Estates, Colorado.
Hail barely showed up — seven reports in the whole country. The biggest was a 1.75-inch stone at Fredonia, Kansas, with a few smaller ones nearby. That's still past the line where a roof takes a real bruise, but on a day this scattered it's the exception, not the theme. Those two tornadoes in Illinois and the spin-ups elsewhere were the day's teeth.
A scattered tornado day is the sneaky kind. There's no big regional headline telling you to check, because no one county got hammered — the damage is one field, one subdivision, one street, in five states at once. If a warning crossed your phone yesterday and the sky got serious, that's reason enough to walk your property: peeled ridge shingles, a lifted flashing, a limb through the eave. A quick look now beats finding it after the next storm blends the evidence together.
For the crews, there's no clean canvass on a map like this — the hail is too thin to chase and the tornado damage is scattered across half the country, house by house. It's survey-and-knock work, not a corridor. Where the season's real hail keeps concentrating stays on the Top States for Hail board. The full state list is below — the fastest way to know if the 10th touched you is to find your own county in it.