Hail, Hart
- When
- July 10, 1:00 PM EST
- Where
- Hart County, Hartwell
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.350, -82.933
Hail was observed in the southeast part of town.
Hail in Georgia, July 10, 2002
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 Jul 10, 12:54 PM EST, 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 12:54 PM EST, 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...PRELIMINARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 154 PM EDT WED JUL 10 2002 AT 17Z...SYNOPTIC SCALE SFC BNDRY LOOKS TO BE ABT MIDWAY ACRS KY WITH SVRL SMALLER SCALE BNDRYS LOCATED SE OF THIS FEATURE. TSTMS WILL CONTINUE TO FORM ALONG THESE AFOREMENTIONED FEATURES THRU THE EVENING. AS EXPECTED...KGSP VWP SHOWS A WEAKLY SHEARED ENVIRONMENT... BUT WITH MODERATE INSTABILITY AND SOME TURNING WITH HEIGHT...POTENTIAL FOR SOME MULTICELL SVR STORMS CONTINUES. SOME DIFFERENCES STILL EXIST WRT TIMING OF THE SOUTHWARD MOVEMENT OF COLD FRONT ACRS THE CWFA...WITH AVN STILL ABT 6 OR SO HRS LATER WITH WIND SHIFT & HAVE GENERALLY FOLLOWED THIS SOLUTION. BASED OF CVRG OF DIURNALLY FIRED DEEP CONVECTION ALONG WITH ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT ALONG LLVL BNDRYS ...PROBABLY CAN GET AWAY WITH LIKELYS EVERYWHERE FOR THE 12 HR POP FOR TONIGHT...BUT WILL FINE TUNE THIS CLOSER TO ZFP RELEASE TIME. ALL MDLS STILL IN REASONABLE AGREEMENT WRT TO LOCATION OF HEAVIEST PCPN...ALONG & EAST OF VORT EMBEDDED IN NW FLOW...MAINLY EAST OF THE CWFA. ON THURSDAY...STILL UNCERTAIN ON HOW FAR SW LLVL DRY AIR ADVECTS IN WAKE OF FRONT...BUT CONSENSUS FCST IS ADVERTISING MOST IF NOT ALL OF CWFA REMAINING UNDER A CONSIDERABLE AMNT OF LLVL RH THRU THE DAY...WITH EVEN AVN GENERATING PCPN AS FAR NORTH AS MY NORTHERN NC TIER. SO PLAN ON KEEPING CHC POPS GOING...WHICH IS IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH MRX/RNK ZONES. A SIMILAR DILEMMA ARISES FOR FRIDAY AS A STRGR NORTHERN STREAM S/WV DIVES SE TOWARD THE CWFA... DEVELOPING/ENHANCING WAVE ALONG OLD FRONTAL BNDRY. THE COMBINATION OF LARGE SCALE LIFT OUT AHEAD OF THE UPPER WAVE & INCREASED LLVL UPGLIDE/UPSLOPE FLOW SHOULD NOTABLY INCREASE PCPN CVRG ACRS THE REGION. BUT AGAIN...THE DEGREE OF LLVL DRY AIR WEDGED INTO THE CWFA REMAINS UNCERTAIN...WITH AVN ONCE AGAIN MORE AGGRESSIVE IN SPREADING PCPN BACK NWD ACRS THE CWFA. WILL CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THIS TREND WHICH SUPPORTS THE GOING FCST & IS IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH ADJACENT ZONES. LTL CHANGE IN THE SYNOPTIC PATTERN FOR SATURDAY WITH A COMBO OF UVVS FROM NORTHERN STREAM WAVE & SE LLVL FLOW KEEPING CHC FOR PCPN GOING CWFA WIDE. UPPER PATTERN ACRS THE SE US WILL GRADUALLY TRANSITION BACK TO TYPICAL SUMMERTIME REGIME THRU DAYS 4-7 WITH SW FLOW ALOFT GIVING WAY TO BERMUDA HIGH PRESSURE. FCSTID = 55 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 9:44 AM EST, 3 hours 16 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-102000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1044 AM EDT WED JUL 10 2002 ...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE TODAY IN THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA... A COLD FRONT MOVING SOUTH THROUGH THE CENTRAL APPALACHIANS WILL HELP KICK OFF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. AS THE FRONT AND UPPER TROUGH APPROACH THE WESTERN CAROLINAS...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL OR WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. ALSO...UPSLOPE FLOW OVER THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS WILL TRIGGER INCREASED THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE NEAR THE TENNESSEE BORDER. THIS COULD LEAD TO SUBSTANTIAL RAINFALL AS THUNDERSTORMS TRACK REPEATEDLY OVER THE SAME AREA. RUNOFF PROBLEMS ALONG WITH TO RAPID RISES IN STREAMS AND CREEKS ARE POSSIBLE LATER TODAY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR THE LATEST UPDATES ON THIS POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. RB
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 9:44 AM EST, 3 hours 16 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-102000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1044 AM EDT WED JUL 10 2002 ...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE TODAY IN THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA... A COLD FRONT MOVING SOUTH THROUGH THE CENTRAL APPALACHIANS WILL HELP KICK OFF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. AS THE FRONT AND UPPER TROUGH APPROACH THE WESTERN CAROLINAS...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL OR WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. ALSO...UPSLOPE FLOW OVER THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS WILL TRIGGER INCREASED THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE NEAR THE TENNESSEE BORDER. THIS COULD LEAD TO SUBSTANTIAL RAINFALL AS THUNDERSTORMS TRACK REPEATEDLY OVER THE SAME AREA. RUNOFF PROBLEMS...ALONG WITH RAPID RISES IN STREAMS AND CREEKS ARE POSSIBLE LATER TODAY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR THE LATEST UPDATES ON THIS POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. RB
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 88 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:02 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
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 10, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Minnesota, July 10, 2002
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Kentucky, July 10, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 10, 2002
- Flash Flood in South Dakota, July 10, 2002
- Flash Flood in Iowa, July 10 to 11, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 10, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 10, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 10, 2002
- Blizzard in California, July 10, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 10, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 10, 2002
More
Every storm in Georgia in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, July 2002
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: 5309431.