Hail, Rabun
- When
- June 25, 10:40 AM EST
- Where
- Rabun County, Clayton
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 34.883, -83.400
Golfball-sized hail damaged cars in the parking lot of the emergency operations center.
Hail in Georgia, June 25, 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 25, 9:30 AM EST, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 9:30 AM EST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1030 AM EDT MON JUN 25 2001 12Z HAND ANALYSIS SHOWED A 40 KT JET ON THE W SIDE OF H5 UPPER LOW. LOOKING AT THE WATER VAPOR IMAGE...THE LOW SEEMS TO BE RESPONDING TO THIS JET WITH A RATHER QUICK WESTWARD PROPAGATION THIS MORNING. IN FACT...THE CENTER OF THE LOW ATTM SEEMS TO BE OVER EXTREME ERN TN. AS A RESULT...WE ARE NOW IN A DEEP SLY FLOW...EXCEPT AT THE SFC WHERE WNDS ARE NE. THIS IS A PERFECT ANCHORING FLOW. ATTM THERE ARE ALREADY SOME SHRA/TSRA OVER NE GA THAT HAVE NOT MOVED AND MORE CONVECTION IN ANDERSON COUNTY SLOWLY WORKING TOWARD THE MTNS. FORTUNATELY...THESE AREAS HAVE SEEN VERY LITTLE RAIN THE PAST FEW DAYS. ALSO...CHS SOUNDING HAD A PRONOUNCED DRY SLOT AOB 700 MB. AS THIS SPREADS IN...POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WL INCREASE AS THE AFTN WEARS ON. WL KEEP FFA FOR THE ERN ZONES THROUGH NOON...NO POINT IN CANCELING A WATCH ANY SOONER THAN NEED BE. HOWEVER...WL NOT ISSUE ANYTHING FOR THE AFTN HOURS. OTRW...TEMPS AND POPS LOOK PRETTY GOOD FOR THE AFTN. WL BUMP UP TEMPS A COUPLE DEGREES IN THE ERN ZONES WHERE IS A FAIR AMOUNT OF SUN ATTM. FCSTID = 14 GSP 79 66 83 66 / 70 50 40 30 AND 80 65 85 65 / 70 60 50 40 CLT 78 65 82 65 / 70 50 40 30 HKY 75 62 80 62 / 70 60 50 40 AVL 72 60 75 60 / 70 70 60 50 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THIS MORNING FOR ZONES NCZ035>037...NCZ056>057...NCZ068>072...NCZ082. SC...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THIS MORNING FOR ZONES SCZ007>009...SCZ013>014. MCAVOY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 10:10 AM EST, 30 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-252100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1110 AM EDT MON JUN 25 2001 ...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... AN UNSEASONABLY STRONG UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL DRIFT SLOWLY WEST ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. LAST NIGHT...THIS SAME LOW BROUGHT AS MUCH AS 6 INCHES OF RAIN TO THE CAROLINA PIEDMONT. AS THE ATMOSPHERE HEATS UP THIS AFTERNOON...WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP. THE STORMS WILL MOVE VERY SLOWLY. IN FACT...STORMS WHICH DEVELOP IN THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS MAY NOT MOVE AT AT ALL. THUS THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR SOME LOCATIONS TO RECEIVE SEVERAL INCHES OF RAIN LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS NOT BEEN ISSUED AS THE AREAS WHERE HEAVY RAIN APPEARS MOST LIKELY HAVE NOT SEEN VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE PAST 24 HOURS. HOWEVER...IF HEAVY RAIN DOES DEVELOP...WATCHES MAY BE NEED FOR PARTS OF THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. IN ADDITION TO THE HEAVY RAIN...COLD AND RATHER DRY AIR ALOFT WILL ALLOW SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. 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. MCAVOY
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 108 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:39 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
- Lightning Strike in Georgia, June 25, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, June 25, 2001
- Flooding and Hail in Georgia, June 25 to 27, 2001
- Flood in Texas, June 25, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, June 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 25, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Georgia, June 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, June 25, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, June 25, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 25, 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: 5266919.