Hail, Onslow
- When
- February 28, 9:54 PM EST to 10:25 PM EST
- Where
- Onslow County, Verona to Camp Lejeune
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 34.670, -77.470
Hail in North Carolina, February 28, 1999
Dime size hail was reported by a 911 operator in the southwestern portion of Onslow county. Nickel size hail was also reported at Brown's Mobile Home Park.
Where it happened
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- 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.
Dime size hail was reported by a 911 operator in the southwestern portion of Onslow county. Nickel size hail was also reported at Brown's Mobile Home Park.
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 56 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:51 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
- Damaging Wind in Florida, February 28, 1999
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, February 28, 1999
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, February 28, 1999
- Winter Storm in Michigan, February 28, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, February 28, 1999
- Winter Weather in North Carolina, February 28, 1999
- Winter Weather in New York, February 28, 1999
- Flash Flooding in Oregon, February 28, 1999
- Flooding in Indiana, February 28, 1999
- Blizzard and High Wind in Alaska, February 28, 1999
- Hail in South Carolina, February 28, 1999
- High Wind in Wyoming, February 28, 1999
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, February 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: 5680113.