Hail, Henderson
- When
- May 24, 7:15 PM EST
- Where
- Henderson County, 10 mi NE of Hendersonville
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 35.417, -82.350
Hail in North Carolina, May 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 May 24, 4:19 PM EST, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 4:19 PM EST, 2 hours 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 519 PM EDT THU MAY 24 2001 RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST WILL BE ACCOUNTED FOR IN UPDATED ZONE FORECASTS BY REMOVING MIDNIGHT REFERENCE IN NC PIEDMONT AND UPSTATE SC COUNTIES. FCSTID = 0 GSP 62 78 56 79 / 60 50 40 30 AND 62 78 55 78 / 60 50 40 30 CLT 60 78 58 80 / 30 50 40 30 HKY 60 77 54 77 / 50 50 40 30 AVL 57 72 50 72 / 60 60 30 30 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. LGL
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 24, 4:55 PM EST, 2 hours 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
555 PM EDT THU MAY 24 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
550 PM 10 NNE GREENVILLE SC PEA SIZE HAIL
05/24/01 GREENVILLE REPORTED BY OFF DUTY NWS
METEOROLOGIST
LGLThe radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 60 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:15 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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 24, 2001
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, May 24, 2001
- Hail in Louisiana, May 24, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Washington, May 24, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 24, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 24, 2001
- Flood in Alaska, May 24 to 30, 2001
- Tornado in Alabama, May 24, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, May 24, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 24, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Virginia, May 24, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 24, 2001
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, 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: 5244868.