Hail, Pickens
- When
- August 19, 3:38 PM EST
- Where
- Pickens County, Pickens
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Coordinates
- 34.888, -82.725 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
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Hail in South Carolina, August 19, 1994
7 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 7 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
- $100,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 7
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
7 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Spartanburg
- When
- August 19, 4:04 PM EST
- Where
- Spartanburg County, Reidville
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.931, -81.991 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail, Greenville
- When
- August 19, 4:45 PM EST
- Where
- Greenville County, Of Simpsonville
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.894, -82.371 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail, Spartanburg
- When
- August 19, 4:50 PM EST
- Where
- Spartanburg County, Woodruff
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.931, -81.991 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail, Greenville
- When
- August 19, 4:53 PM EST
- Where
- Greenville County, Mauldin
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Coordinates
- 34.894, -82.371 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
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Hail, Laurens
- When
- August 19, 5:00 PM EST
- Where
- Laurens County, Fountain Inn
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.484, -82.006 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Large, slow moving, marginally severe thunderstorms developed along the mountains and moved south through the upstate, interacting with left-over tropical air from Tropical Storm Beryl. Trees were pushed over (partly because of the soggy ground as opposed to excessively high winds), large hail fell in some places, and in Mauldin - lightning struck and burned one business to the ground, Heavy rainfall in the mountains caused some minor recurrence of the mudslide problem from earlier in the week.
Hail, York
- When
- August 19, 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- York County, Rock Hill
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.975, -81.184 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
One-inch hail at the York County Airport
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
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- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, August 19, 1994
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, August 19, 1994
- Hail in Minnesota, August 19, 1994
- Hail in West Virginia, August 19, 1994
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, August 19, 1994
- Damaging Wind in Indiana, August 19, 1994
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: 10346903, 10346627, 10347112, 10346628, 10347113, 10346706, 10346469.