South Carolina, 2001

Hail in South Carolina, May 26, 2001

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

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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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 Charleston, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 26, 2:00 AM EST, 6 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:00 AM EST, 6 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
300 AM EDT SAT MAY 26 2001

ISOLD SWRS MOVG ACRS INTR SXNS OF GA/ALLENDALE AND HAMPTON CTYS OF
SC ATTM THO TENDING TO WEAKEN AS THEY MOVE NERD. A BIT OF A LOW OVR
SE GA SEEN ON MSAS SFC MAP AT 06Z PROB CAUSE OF SWR ACTIVITY...AS
WELL AS BACK SIDE OF S/W MOVG IN SW FLOW. WV CHANNEL SHOWS DRY SLOT
OVR SRN GA MOVG INTO S CSTL SC ATTM. DEWPTS NOW IN SOUPY
RANGE...MNLY IN THE 60S ACRS RGN.

STILL HAVING VSBY PROBS IN SE GA DUE TO SMOKE FM FIRES IN FL
REACHING THIS FAR N COMBINED WTH FOG THIS ERLY MRNG. SMOKE PLUME CAN
BE SEEN VRY WELL ON VSBL STLT IMAGERY. APPEARS THAT THE SMOKE...HIGH
BASED...HAS REACHED ACRS INLAND SXNS OF S CSTL SC INTO THE PEE DEE
AS WELL. DO XPCT THIS TO CONT WTH HIGH LVL CAPPING AND CONTD SW FLOW
ACRS RGN.

MDLS RMN CONSISTENT WTH STALLED UPR LOW OVR GRT LKS RGN. APPEARS
THAT IT WL NOT MOV MCH THRU SHORT TERM. SO...WL CONT WTH TIMING
PROBS OF S/WS COMING ARND BASE OF LOW AS MDLS NOT HANDLING THIS
ASPECT TOO WELL. ETA/AVN CONT WTH S/W MOVG ACRS MIDLANDS/PEE DEE TDY
WTH GOOD PIECE OF SRN XTNT OF S/W ACRS SC PTN THIS AFTN. WL KEEP
SLGT CHC GOING FOR TDY...MNLY IN THE MRNG ACRS GA AND THE AFTN FOR
SC THO TIMING CAN CHANGE DEPENDING UPON CRNT SWR ACTIVITY INLAND AT
PRESS TIME. A BIT OF A SFC RDG CONTS TO BLD ACRS RGN TNGT/SUN SO WL
KEEP SWRS OUT OF FCST. WL REINTRODUCE SWRS/TSTMS SUN NIGHT/MON WTH
ANOTHER S/W IN CYCLONIC FLOW MOVS ACRS MIDLANDS/PEE DEE.

ON XTNDD...LOW FINALLY BEGINS TO MIGRATE SLOLY E ACRS NRN TIER
STATES WTH TRAILING CFNT APPROACHING NC/NRN SC LATE MON-TUE. AVN
TRIES TO MOV FNT S OF RGN BY 12Z WED...BUT THIS WL DEPEND UPON
WHENEVER THE NRN UPR LOW DECIDES TO MOV. PLAN ON KEEPING LOW CHC
SWRS IN FCST TUE-WED ATTM.

CWF...WEAKENING FRONT ALONG THE COAST THRU THIS AFTN. SFC HI
CENTERED WELL OFFSHORE WILL KEEP PERSISTENT S/SW WINDS FOR MAJORITY
OF THIS PKG ALL LOCATIONS EXCEPT SE WINDS INITIALLY NRN WATERS. NO
FLAGS NECESSARY.

FCSTID = 26
CHS   85  63  86  65 /  20  10  10  20
SAV   86  62  87  64 /  20  10  10  20
CHL   85  68  85  70 /  20  10  10  20
NBC   85  64  86  66 /  20  10  10  20
RBW   83  62  84  62 /  20  10  10  20

.CHS...
GA...NONE.
SC...NONE.

EVT/MJR

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 141 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:15 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Berkeley

When
May 26, 8:15 AM EST to 8:20 AM EST
Where
Berkeley County, Jamestown
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
FIRE DEPT/RESCUE SQUAD
Coordinates
33.283, -79.700

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: 5244298.