Hail, Columbia
- When
- May 12, 2:40 PM EST
- Where
- Columbia County, Evans
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 33.533, -82.133
HAM operator reported dime size hail.
Hail in Georgia, May 12, 2001
2 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
- 2
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 Columbia, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 12, 2:29 PM EST, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 12, 2:29 PM EST, 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 329 PM EDT SAT MAY 12 2001 SHORT WAVE INITIATING CONVECTION WILL MOVE EAST OF THE AREA THIS EVENING. COLD FRONT TO CROSS THE AREA TONIGHT. WILL KEEP A CHANCE OF SHOWERS/TSTMS UNTIL AROUND MIDNIGHT. UPPER TROUGH SWINGING THROUGH SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT..EMBEDDED SHORT WAVE CROSSING SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY MORNING. THIS SHOULD PRODUCE A FEW CLOUDS. ETA SHOWING H8 MOISTURE SUNDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY MONDAY MORNING. SURFACE RIDGE BUILDS FOR MONDAY. MOS TEMPS LOOK REASONABLE WITH LOWS IN THE MID/UPPER 50S TONIGHT AND IN THE MID 40S SUNDAY NIGHT. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S TO LOWER 80S SUNDAY AND MONDAY. FOR THE EXTENDED...NEXT CHANCE FOR RAIN STILL LOOKS LIKE WEDNESDAY AS A FRONT CROSSES THE STATE. ENSEMBLE FORECAST INDICATES LOW CONFIDENCE FOR POPS AND TEMPS ON WEDNESDAY. THURSDAY AND FRIDAY LOOK DRY WITH CHANCE OF PRECIP AGAIN ON SATURDAY. FCSTID =V 10 CAE 58 81 46 82 / 30 10 0 0 AGS 57 81 45 83 / 30 0 0 0 SSC 58 81 46 82 / 40 10 0 0 OGB 58 81 46 83 / 40 0 0 0 .CAE... GA...NONE. SC...NONE.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Columbia
- When
- May 12, 2:45 PM EST
- Where
- Columbia County, Martinez
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 33.517, -82.083
Sheriff reported dime size hail.
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
- Rip Current in California, May 12, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, May 12, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, May 12, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Texas, May 12, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, May 12, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, May 12, 2001
- Damaging Wind in New York, May 12, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Massachusetts, May 12, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 12, 2001
- Hail in Florida, May 12, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, May 12, 2001
- Excessive Heat in Massachusetts, May 12, 2001
More
Every storm in Georgia in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, May 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: 5243509, 5243510.