Hail in South Carolina, May 25, 2000

Name: Hail in South Carolina, May 25, 2000
Start: 2000-05-25T20:00
End: 2000-05-25T20:30
Location: South Carolina

May 25, 2000 · 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: $150,000
Crop damage: $10,000
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 Columbia radar (KCAE), 122 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:01 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Darlington

When: May 25, 8:00 PM EST to 8:30 PM EST
Where: Darlington County, Darlington
Measured: 2 in hail
Property damage: $150,000
Crop damage: $10,000
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 34.300, -79.867

A severe thunderstorm caused dime size hail in the city of Darlington, and 2 inch hail just to the south. Strong gusty wind caused tree and roof damage to the Landmark Motor Inn, 2 miles south of the city, and overturned a mobile home in Oats, 8 miles south of Darlington. The County Agricultural Service reported several areas of crop damage near highway 401.

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

Every storm in South Carolina in 2000 Every state in 2000 This day in weather history Warnings in South Carolina, May 2000

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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5144143.