North Carolina, 2001

Hail in North Carolina, May 26, 2001

May 26, 2001 · NWS MHX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
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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 Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 26, 2:13 PM EST, 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:13 PM EST, 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
313 PM EDT SAT MAY 26 2001

...BIGGEST PROBLEM IS ON GOING CONVECTION AND WHEN WILL IT END...

VERY BUSY WITH WARNINGS SO THIS WILL BE PRETTY BRIEF.

STRONG VORT THAT HAS CAUSED THE SHRA/TSTMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL MOVE
OFF THE COAST BY 06Z. UPPER LOW CONTINUES TO WOBBLE AROUND IN THE
GREAT LAKES REGION AND FINALLY BEGINS TO MOVE OUT TO THE E-NE
MONDAY. ONCE THIS PCPN ENDS TONIGHT THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT AND
SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT LOOK DRY. CHC POPS NECESSARY AGAIN MONDAY
AS FRONT APPROACHES AND THEN MOVES THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT OR EARLY
TUESDAY.

TEMPS...GUIDANCE TEMPS ARE CLOSE AND ACCEPTED.

EXTENDED...ANOTHER UPPER LOW DIGS S FRIDAY AND SATURDAY WHICH WILL
PROBABLY GIVE US SOME SHRA/TSTMS.

MARINE...NO FLAGS EXPECTED.

.MHX....NONE.

WS

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 2:11 PM EST, 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY, NC
311 PM EDT SAT MAY 26 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0202 PM    ROSE HILL                 NC   .75 INCH HAIL
05/26/01   DUPLIN                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT DIME SIZE
                                          HAIL IN ROSE HILL

0225 PM    WILLIAMSTON               NC   .88 INCH HAIL REPORTED
05/26/01   LENOIR                         BY LAW FORCEMENT IN
                                          LAGRANGE

0250 PM    GREENVILLE                NC   .75 INCH HAIL
05/26/01   PITT                           REPORTED IN GREENVILLE
                                          BY SPOTTERS

0250 PM    JONESTOWN, DEEP RUN       NC   60 MPH WIND
05/26/01   LENOIR                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

0300 PM    DEEP RUN                  NC   TREES DOWN
05/26/01   LENOIR                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 62 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:32 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Onslow

When
May 26, 2:33 PM EST
Where
Onslow County, Haw
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
34.700, -77.550

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

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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: 5243846.