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Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
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A severe hail storm accompanied by thunder gust hit West-Haven, Vermont on August 21, damaging homes, trees, crops, injuring cattle, and killing hundreds of birds, with hail up to four inches deep.
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On the 21st August, a thunder gust accompanied with hail, did much damage in West-Haven, Vermont. The hail stones were of the size and shape of dried figs, and fell with such force: as to break all the glass in a house fronting the cloud; to split and tear off shingles; to strip off the branches of apple trees of one year's growth, and bruise the bark from the storm side of the trunk. Cattle in the fields had small swellings raised by the hail, and some hundred of larks, quails, blackbirds, robins &c. were found dead in the fields victims to the tempest; oats, peas, &c. were cut off to the roots; and on the day after the storm the hail in many places upon the level ground was four inches in depth.—Ibid.
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Primary Location
West Haven, Vermont
Event Date
21st August
Outcome
damage to house glass and shingles; branches stripped from apple trees, bark bruised; cattle with swellings; hundreds of birds (larks, quails, blackbirds, robins) dead; oats and peas cut off at roots; hail four inches deep on ground.
Event Details
A thunder gust with hail stones size and shape of dried figs fell with force, breaking glass in a house, splitting shingles, stripping tree branches, bruising tree bark, injuring cattle, killing birds, destroying crops.