Hail, Graham
- When
- June 14, 8:07 AM EST
- Where
- Graham County, 16 mi W of Robbinsville
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.333, -84.100
Spotter reported dime-sized hail near the Tennessee border.
Hail in North Carolina, 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, 1:30 AM EST, 6 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 1:30 AM EST, 6 hours 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 230 AM EDT THU JUN 14 2001 REMNANTS OF ALLISON STILL CAUSING PROBLEMS OVER THE AREA. WITH LITTLE CHANGE IN AIR MASS...WE ARE LOOKING AT ANOTHER DAY OF MARGINAL SVR WEATHER PARTICULARLY IN OUR SOUTHWESTERN ZONES. HEAVY RAIN IS MY MAIN CONCERN AS AREA RECEIVED SEVERAL INCHES OF RAIN YESTERDAY. STABILITY INDECES ARE IMPRESSIVE IN THAT AREA ALSO...SO THE PLAN IS TO HIT THE SOUTHWEST ZONES HARD THEN TAPER TSTMS LOWER TOWARD THE NORTH AND EAST. AFTER THAT WE KEEP CHANCE THUNDERSTORMS UNTIL FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA OVER THE WEEKEND. ONLY OTHER CHANGE IS TO RAISE MAX TEMPS AT THE END OF THE EXTENDED. WITH RIDGE SETTING UP OVER THE SOUTHEAST AFTER THE FRONTAL PASSAGE THIS WEEKEND...I EXPECT A FASTER WARMUP THAT FMR IS INDICATING. HWO WILL BE ISSUED WITH ZONE PACKAGE. GSP 88 68 87 68 / 50 40 40 30 AND 86 68 /87 68 / 60 40 40 30 CLT 90 68 86 68 / 40 40 40 30 HKY 88 68 85 68 / 40 30 40 30 AVL 87 64 82 62 / 40 30 40 30 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. DICARLO
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 4:15 AM EST, 3 hours 52 minutes before
GAZ018-026-028-029-SCZ004-005-010-011-019-141600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 515 AM EDT THU JUN 14 2001 UNSTABLE AIR AND THE REMNANTS TROPICAL STORM ALLISON SHOULD COMBINE TO PRODUCE VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE SAVANNAH RIVER AND UPSTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. WHILE CONDITIONS ARE MARGINAL FOR HAIL AND WIND SEVERE WEATHER THREATS...THERE IS A STRONG POSSIBILITY FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN OF ONE TO THREE INCHES. SINCE THE GROUND IT STILL MOIST FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS ON WEDNESDAY...THERE IS A THREAT OF FLOODING CAUSED BY DOWNPOURS IN THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS POTENTIAL SEVERE WEATHER AND FLOOD SITUATION. DICARLO
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 112 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:07 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
- 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 North Carolina in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, 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: 5254972.