Hail, Stephens
- When
- June 14, 1:28 PM EST
- Where
- Stephens County, Avalon
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.500, -83.200
Sheriff's department relayed a report of dime-sized hail at Avalon.
Hail in Georgia, June 14, 2001
1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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 forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 14, 8:30 AM EST, 4 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 8:30 AM EST, 4 hours 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 930 AM EDT THU JUN 14 2001 GETTING OFF TO A QUICK START THIS MORNING WITH ONE SEVERE CELL ALREADY IN GRAHAM COUNTY NC. WILL ISSUE A QUICK UPDATE TO ACCOUNT FOR THUNDERSTORMS ALREADY DEVELOPING OVER THE NC MOUNTAINS. MORE COMPREHENSIVE ZONE UPDATE WILL FOLLOW AROUND 11 AM AFTER UPPER AIR ANALYSIS AND LOOK AT 12Z RUC. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. MOORE
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 14, 8:10 AM EST, 5 hours 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
910 AM EDT THU JUN 14 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LO,CATION....
907 AM 16 W ROBBINSVILLE NC .75 INCH HAIL
06/14/01 GRAHAM COUNTY EC REPORT.
JATSpecial weather statement, Jun 14, 10:36 AM EST, 2 hours 52 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-142130- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1136 AM EDT THU JUN 14 2001 UNSTABLE AIR AND PLENTIFUL MOISTURE SHOULD COMBINE TO PRODUCE VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AIR CONVERGING FROM A WESTERLY FLOW ACROSS THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AND A NORTHEAST FLOW AROUND A LOW PRESSURE AREA ALONG THE NORTH CAROLINA COAST... SHOULD AID IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF STORMS. THE HIGHEST POSSIBILITY FOR DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS EXIST OVER PIEDMONT COUNTIES ALONG THE INTERSTATE 77 CORRIDOR. BUT STORMS STRONG ENOUGH TO DO DAMAGE COULD OCCUR THROUGH OUT THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. LARGE HAIL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY STRONG STORMS. THERE IS ALSO A THREAT OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IN EXCESS OF THREE INCHES FROM ANY SLOW MOVING STORMS THAT DEVELOP. SINCE THE GROUND IS STILL MOIST FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS ON WEDNESDAY... FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM DOWNPOURS IN AREAS WHERE HEAVY RAIN PERSISTS. SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO ACTIVATE QUICKLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. DISPATCHERS SHOULD ENSURE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ARE AWARE OF THIS INFORMATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS POTENTIAL SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/ER/GSP RBN
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Heat in Texas, June 14, 2001
- Tornadoes in Iowa, June 14, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, June 14, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 14 to 20, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, June 14, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Kansas, June 14, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, June 14, 2001
- Extreme Cold in Colorado, June 14, 2001
- Flash Flood in Missouri, June 14, 2001
- Flash Flood in Arkansas, June 14 to 15, 2001
- Flash Flood and Lightning Strike in North Carolina, June 14, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Iowa, June 14, 2001
More
Every storm in Georgia in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, June 2001
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: 5254656.