Some days the map has a bullseye. The 21st didn't — 32 reports smeared coast to coast with no single state owning the afternoon. The through-line, if there was one, was tornadoes: ten of them, and they touched down about as far apart as spin-ups can.
New Jersey logged three of them, the most of any state, in a tight Eastern cluster that also spun up cells in Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Out the other direction, Arizona put down one of its own — desert and Mid-Atlantic throwing the same weather on the same day, which doesn't happen often.
Hail barely showed. The biggest stone of the day was a 2.25-incher at Doswell in Virginia, north of Richmond up by the King's Dominion country, with a couple more Virginia stones under it and a lone 1.5-inch report at Erie, Pennsylvania. Six hail reports total — a quiet day for ice by any measure.
A 2.25-inch stone is still worth respecting even on a slow day. That's past the noise-only line and into mat-bruising, granule-shearing territory. If you're in the Doswell area, don't let the small footprint fool you into skipping the look — one narrow cell can hammer a couple of subdivisions hard and leave the next town over bone dry.
Tornado days like this are miserable to canvass — the damage is pinpoint and scattered across half a dozen states, a house here and a farm two counties over. There's no corridor to work, just individual hits. If a warning crossed your town yesterday, walk the property yourself: it's the outbuildings, fence lines, and big trees that tell you a circulation actually came through, not just a gust. Where the season's tornado count really stacks up is on the Top States for Tornadoes board. The full state-by-state list is below — check the row for your state and see what got reported near you on the 21st.