Hail, Duplin
- When
- August 12, 4:20 PM EST to 4:25 PM EST
- Where
- Duplin County, 5 mi S of Chinquapin
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 34.770, -77.800
Hail in North Carolina, August 12, 1998
Half dollar size hail reported by the public south of Chinquapin.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. 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
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS MHX wrote it up.
Half dollar size hail reported by the public south of Chinquapin.
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 84 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:21 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 12, 1998
- Wildfire in Idaho, August 12 to 21, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Vermont, August 12, 1998
- Lightning Strikes in Oklahoma, August 12, 1998
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, August 12, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 12, 1998
- Flash Flood in Vermont, August 12, 1998
- Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, August 12, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Texas, August 12, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Tennessee, August 12, 1998
- Flood and Lightning Strike in Florida, August 12, 1998
- Lightning Strike in New Mexico, August 12, 1998
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, August 1998
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: 5660832.