This past week Dayton and the surrounding areas were greatly affected by a damaging storm. A tornado developed from the supercell thunderstorm that hit the area with two to three inch hail. The tornado swept through the Miami Valley South Hospital site and was on the ground for the length of two and a half football fields. According to Erica Collura, a WHIO-TV meteorologist, the Dayton area has not seen three inch hail in over a decade. 

Insurance companies and auto repair shops were overwhelmingly busy the day following the storm. By 1 p.m. Thursday, State Farm agents had received 1,678 vehicle claims and 1,198 property damage claims. Blake Zitko, the spokesman for State Farm, expects those numbers to increase due to others filing claims for wind and water damage. The phones at the Centerville Body Shop were ringing off the hook all day. Mike Coleman says the shop has never seen so much hail damage done to cars. Coleman believes that they will be busy for the rest of the year because of the amount of damage done.

Students at Bellbrook High School are not very pleased with the damage the storm has caused. Many have cars that have been totaled from hail damage. Walking down the halls of the school, many are saying things such as, “How am I going to get to work?” and “Now I won’t have a car because my parents aren’t going to pay to get mine fixed!” Students and neighbors in the Bellbrook community all agree that this is the worst storm they have seen sweep through this area.