Hail, Pitt
- When
- March 20, 10:58 PM EST
- Where
- Pitt County, 3 mi W of Greenville
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.620, -77.430
Hail in North Carolina, March 20 to 21, 1998
911 reported extensive dime to quarter size hail in Columbia.
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
- 2
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.
911 reported extensive dime to quarter size hail in Columbia.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Tyrrell
- When
- March 21, 12:40 AM EST
- Where
- Tyrrell County, Columbia
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.920, -76.250
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
- Tornadoes in Georgia, March 20, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Carolina, March 20, 1998
- Tornadoes in North Carolina, March 20, 1998
- Tornado in North Carolina, March 20, 1998
- Tornado in North Carolina, March 20, 1998
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Virginia, March 20, 1998
- Flood in Florida, March 20 to 31, 1998
- Storm Surge in Ohio, March 20 to 21, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, March 20, 1998
- Flood in Florida, March 20, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Virginia, March 20 to 21, 1998
- Tornado in North Carolina, March 20, 1998
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, March 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5629630, 5629750.