Name: Hail in South Carolina, July 2, 2001
Start: 2001-07-02T15:35
End: 2001-07-02T15:35
Location: South Carolina

Where it happened

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Heat and drought
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Fire, smoke and dust
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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 Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 2, 12:43 PM EST, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 12:43 PM EST, 2 hours 52 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
143 PM EDT MON JUL 2 2001

FRONTAL BOUNDARY SINKING SOUTH OVER CWA THIS AFTN AND FIRING A NICE
LINE OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS IN THE WARM MOIST AIR OVER REGION.
RESULTANT WIND APPEARS TO BE ATTEMPTING TO WORK INLAND OVER SRN
BRUNSWICK CO. THIS MAY HELP TO ENHANCE PCPN AS FRONT APPROACHES.
DEWPT BOUNDARY WELL BEHIND THE FRONT.

MODELS REMAIN SIMILAR IN SLOWLY PUSHING THE FRONT THROUGH CWA AND
STALLING IT JUST S OF US TONIGHT. MOISTURE HOLDS ON NEXT FEW DAYS AS
HIGH PRES AND DRIER AIR PROGGED ONLY TO MAKE IT INTO N-NE NC THROUGH
PERIOD. ETA/AVN MODELS SHOWING WEAK S/W MOVING ALONG NC/SC TNGT.
WITH AIRMASS REMAINING FAIRLY MOIST...THE CHC FOR PCPN WILL
CONTINUE. WILL CARRY CHC POPS TNGT.

WITH MOISTURE HANGING AROUND WILL KEEP WITH PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES AND
CHC POPS FOR TUE. MAX TEMPS IN LOW TO MID 80S. WINDS RETURN TO S-SW
DIRECTION W AS NEXT FRONT APPROACHES AND TEMPS WARM A FEW DEGREES.
WILL AGAIN CARRY CHC POPS FOR AFTN ACTIVITY.

EXTENDED:  ANOTHER COLD FRONT APPROACHES WED NIGHT AND SLOWLY PUSHES
THROUGH CAROLINAS DURING THURS AND OFFSHORE EARLY FRI. BEST CHC
RAINS LOOKS TO BE THURS AND WILL CARRY CHC POPS THROUGH FRIDAY. PLAN
TO KEEP REMAINDER OF EXTENDED DRY AT THIS POINT.

CWF: WINDS TURING TO THE NE LATE THIS AFTN AND EVNG 10 TO 15 KT.
WINDS RETURN TO S/SE DIRECTION ON TUE AND REMAIN THROUGH PERIOD.
NO FLAGS.

FCSTID = 30
ILM   69  84  71  87 /  30  30  20  30
LBT   66  85  70  88 /  30  30  20  30
FLO   68  86  70  89 /  30  30  20  30
MYR   70  83  72  86 /  30  30  20  30

.ILM...
NC...NONE.
SC...NONE.

PJN

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 2, 3:30 PM EST, 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
430 PM EDT MON JUL 2 2001

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

0200 PM    FLORENCE                  SC   WIND DAMAGE
07/02/01   FLORENCE                       TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
                                          ON WEST PALMETTO STREET.

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 30 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:34 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Horry

When: July 2, 3:35 PM EST
Where: Horry County, North Myrtle Beach
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: FIRE DEPT/RESCUE SQUAD
Coordinates: 33.833, -78.700

Long Creek-Grady fire department reported nickel 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.

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The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in South Carolina in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in South Carolina, July 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: 5258631.