Hail in North Carolina, August 19, 1999

Name: Hail in North Carolina, August 19, 1999
Start: 1999-08-19T15:30
End: 1999-08-19T15:40
Location: North Carolina

August 19, 1999 · NWS ILM · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $35,000
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.

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 44 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:28 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Columbus

When: August 19, 3:30 PM EST to 3:40 PM EST
Where: Columbus County, Tabor City to 1 mi E of Tabor City
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Property damage: $35,000
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 34.130, -78.880

Thunderstorms moving east caused a lightning fire that destroyed a house just south of Tabor City. A large tree limb was downed onto a car in Tabor City. Six miles east at Iron Hill, six cows in a grove of trees were killed by lightning, and dime size hail was reported 9 miles east of Tabor City.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in North Carolina in 1999 Every state in 1999 This day in weather history Warnings in North Carolina, August 1999

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: 5714679.