Narrative:

On final [weather radar] was painting yellow at the end of the runway with red off the end. A 'splattering' of green on and in front of and to the side of the runway. We could see centerline on final to the end on the runway. Very near touchdown; below 30 ft; we encountered a very strong gust of wind from the right side. At the same time; visibility dropped to very low. The airplane weather-vaned into the wind [and got] pushed the [to] right of the runway. I tried to keep the airplane on the runway by using rudder and as little ailerons as I could because I did not want to [get a] wing strike. I could no longer see the center line but I could tell we were still on pavement. The airplane floated just a bit due to the sudden added wind speed we touched down with a side load. Just before we touched down; the first officer (first officer) said 'we need to go left.' I tried but the aircraft didn't respond right away. The first officer said again 'left; left' and then because he didn't feel me trying he [input] rudder as well. We got a dual input.I then said 'my controls' and the aircraft started responding and I was able to get it back to centerline. This all happened in a matter of seconds from the gust/ sudden loss of visibility to touchdown right of center line; side-loaded. Just as quickly it passed and visibility returned to what is was before. In the second it happened; I thought of a go-around and very quickly dismissed because of the thunderstorm at the end of the runway and our very low energy. I was worried about wind shear with the low energy and didn't think we could get enough altitude to turn before heavy rain at the departure end of the runway.exited the runway and taxied back to the terminals normally. When we reached the gate; local maintenance was waiting on us. I asked them to the cockpit. I told them that we had a hard landing and a side-loaded landing. I told them I was going to write it up for that. I was in the process of writing it up and calling dispatch and maintenance control when local [maintenance] came back up and said there was damage and grass on the underbelly. I finished writing up the side-loading and then went out to take a look to see what I needed to write up. The left engine appeared to have ingested FOD (grass) and there was damage to the right engine lower outboard reverser door. I returned to the cockpit and wrote these up as well. Looking back on it; I don't think I should have written up a hard landing. I don't feel like it was a hard landing but it was definitely a side-loaded landing.I might have been able to glance back inside and continued to use the localizer guidance to be able to tell how far off of center line the aircraft was for the few seconds that the visibility dropped.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A320 flight crew reported a runway excursion in gusty wind conditions that resulted in damage to the belly and engine nacelle.

Narrative: On final [weather radar] was painting yellow at the end of the runway with red off the end. A 'splattering' of green on and in front of and to the side of the runway. We could see centerline on final to the end on the runway. Very near touchdown; below 30 ft; we encountered a very strong gust of wind from the right side. At the same time; visibility dropped to very low. The airplane weather-vaned into the wind [and got] pushed the [to] right of the runway. I tried to keep the airplane on the runway by using rudder and as little ailerons as I could because I did not want to [get a] wing strike. I could no longer see the center line but I could tell we were still on pavement. The airplane floated just a bit due to the sudden added wind speed we touched down with a side load. Just before we touched down; the F/O (First Officer) said 'we need to go left.' I tried but the aircraft didn't respond right away. The FO said again 'left; left' and then because he didn't feel me trying he [input] rudder as well. We got a dual input.I then said 'my controls' and the aircraft started responding and I was able to get it back to centerline. This all happened in a matter of seconds from the gust/ sudden loss of visibility to touchdown right of center line; side-loaded. Just as quickly it passed and visibility returned to what is was before. In the second it happened; I thought of a go-around and very quickly dismissed because of the thunderstorm at the end of the runway and our very low energy. I was worried about wind shear with the low energy and didn't think we could get enough altitude to turn before heavy rain at the departure end of the runway.Exited the runway and taxied back to the terminals normally. When we reached the gate; local Maintenance was waiting on us. I asked them to the cockpit. I told them that we had a hard landing and a side-loaded landing. I told them I was going to write it up for that. I was in the process of writing it up and calling Dispatch and Maintenance Control when local [Maintenance] came back up and said there was damage and grass on the underbelly. I finished writing up the side-loading and then went out to take a look to see what I needed to write up. The left engine appeared to have ingested FOD (grass) and there was damage to the right engine lower outboard reverser door. I returned to the cockpit and wrote these up as well. Looking back on it; I don't think I should have written up a hard landing. I don't feel like it was a hard landing but it was definitely a side-loaded landing.I might have been able to glance back inside and continued to use the localizer guidance to be able to tell how far off of center line the aircraft was for the few seconds that the visibility dropped.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.