Hail, Catawba
- When
- May 18, 4:00 PM EST
- Where
- Catawba County, Hickory
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.663, -81.214 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail in North Carolina, May 18, 1993
3 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Iredell
- When
- May 18, 4:33 PM EST
- Where
- Iredell County, Statesville
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.807, -80.873 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail, Lenoir
- When
- May 18, 4:45 PM EST
- Where
- Lenoir County, Kinston
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.239, -77.641 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, May 18, 1993
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, May 18 to 30, 1993
- Hail and Damaging Winds in West Virginia, May 18, 1993
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 18, 1993
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 18, 1993
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, May 18, 1993
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, May 18, 1993
- Hail in Arizona, May 18, 1993
- Hail in Louisiana, May 18, 1993
- Hail in South Carolina, May 18, 1993
- Hail in Alabama, May 18, 1993
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10338981, 10338312, 10338363.