Hail, Burke
- When
- April 17, 1:30 PM EST to 1:35 PM EST
- Where
- Burke County, Brindletown
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- FIRE DEPT/RESCUE SQUAD
- Coordinates
- 35.633, -81.817
Hail in North Carolina, April 17, 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 Apr 17, 9:30 AM EST, 4 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 9:30 AM EST, 4 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1030 AM EDT WED APR 17 2002 MODIFIED GSO SOUNDING SHOWS CAPE ON THE ORDER OF 2000 J/KG THIS AFTERNOON. SURFACE BASED PARCELS SHOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM OVERCOMING A MID LEVEL CAP THIS AFTERNOON...BUT SIMILAR TO YESTERDAY...MOST OF THE AREA WILL NOT HAVE A DECENT TRIGGER UNTIL PERHAPS LATER IN THE DAY. A WEAK VORT LOBE EXTENDING DOWN OVER THE NC FOOTHILLS THIS MORNING WILL MOVE SLOWLY OFF TO THE EAST THIS AFTERNOON WHILE THE MAIN SHORT WAVE OVER THE MS VALLEY REGION WILL NOT MAKE IT FAR ENUF EAST BY THE END OF THE DAY. INSTEAD...I EXPECT SCATTERED SHOWERS TO DEVELOP OVER THE MOUNTAINS IN THE AFTERNOON DUE TO DIFFERENTIAL HEATING...AND THEN TO DRIFT OUT OVER THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT IN THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. WILL ADJUST THE TIMING ON THE WORDING TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS. THE UPSTATE AND NE GA HAVE THE LEAST CHANCE CONSIDERING THE WESTERLY FLOW...SO THE POP WILL BE SCALED BACK SOMEWHAT. TEMPS LOOK OK FOR THE MOST PART AND MIGHT GET A FEW MINOR ADJUSTMENTS. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. MOORE
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 91 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:30 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, April 17 to 18, 2002
- Hail and Heavy Rain in Tennessee, April 17, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, April 17 to 18, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, April 17 to 18, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, April 17, 2002
- High Wind in Iowa, April 17 to 18, 2002
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, April 17, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, April 17 to 18, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, April 17, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, April 17, 2002
- Hail and Lightning Strike in North Carolina, April 17, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Massachusetts, April 17, 2002
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, April 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: 5293740.