Hail, Cleveland
- When
- June 24, 8:55 PM EST
- Where
- Cleveland County, Shelby
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 35.300, -81.550
Golfball-sized hail observed by emergency management personnel in downtown Shelby.
Hail in North Carolina, June 24, 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 24, 8:55 PM EST, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 8:55 PM EST, 0 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 955 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2001 FORECAST TRENDS GOOD SO FAR. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE PROPAGATING INTO MORE STABLE AIR AND BELIEVE THEY WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH AS WE GET CLOSER TO MIDNIGHT. PLENTY OF OUTFLOWS HAVE COME OUT OF STORMS THIS EVENING SO NEW DEVELOPMENT COULD POP UP MOST ANYWHERE OUTSIDE THE MOUNTAINS FOR A BRIEF PERIOD. MAIN ACTIVITY HOWEVER SHOULD REMAIN ALONG BEST CONVERGENCE AXIS FROM JUST EAST OF SPARTANBURG TO WEST OF STATESVILLE. I DO NOT PLAN TO UPDATE AT THIS TIME BUT MAY TOWARDS MIDNIGHT OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DIMINISH AS EXPECTED. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RBN
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 24, 8:26 PM EST, 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
926 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
855 PM 6 NE GAFFNEY SC WIND DAMAGE
06/24/01 CHEROKEE FEW TREES REPORTED DOWN
BY EMERGENCY MANAGER...
ALSO MARBLE SIZE HAIL
REPORTED.
RBNThe radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 77 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:55 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 South Dakota, June 24, 2001
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, June 24, 2001
- Tornado in Florida, June 24, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, June 24, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Maine, June 24 to 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 24, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 24, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 24, 2001
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, June 24, 2001
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, June 24, 2001
- Wildfire in Idaho, June 24, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Montana, June 24, 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5255046.