Hail, Nash
- When
- April 19, 3:30 PM EST
- Where
- Nash County, Nashville
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.967, -77.967
Hail in North Carolina, April 19, 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 Raleigh, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 19, 1:44 PM EST, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 1:44 PM EST, 1 hour 46 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 200 PM EDT FRI APR 19 2002 .SHORT TERM...COMPLICATED WEATHER PATTERN SETTING UP THROUGH THE BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK. EXPECT A PRETTY GOOD COVERAGE OF CONVECTION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS BAND OF SHOWERS/STORMS MOVES EAST ACROSS THE AREA. WILL INCLUDE SHRA/TSRA FOR THIS EVENING. FRONTAL SYSTEM OVER GREAT LAKES DROPS SOUTH TONIGHT AND SATURDAY BEFORE STALLING OVER THE REGION SATURDAY NIGHT/SUNDAY. LATEST RUN OF ETA/AVN PUSHES FRONT SOUTH OF FORECAST AREA BY SUNDAY MORNING. WILL NOT FOLLOW THIS FRONTAL POSITION BUT RATHER KEEP FRONT FURTHER NORTH IN NORTHERN NC AND LIMIT THE SOUTHWARD EXTENT OF THE COOL AIR PUSH. FRONT LIFTS NORTH SUNDAY AS A WAVE DEVELOPS ALONG FRONT OVER MS VALLEY AND PUSHES EAST. TRAILING COLD FRONT SWINGS THROUGH THE AREA LATE SUNDAY NIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY. GREATEST CHANCE OF RAIN APPEARS TO BE THIS EVENING...NEAR FRONTAL POSITION SATURDAY AND WITH FROPA SUNDAY NIGHT. GUIDANCE TEMPS GENERALLY FOLLOWED THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT WITH FORECAST TEMPS ABOVE GUIDANCE ON SUNDAY. .EXTENDED... MODEL CONSENSUS FAVORS SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE MOVING FROM THE OHIO VALLEY TO THE MID ATLANTIC COAST TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. THIS SHOULD BRING DRY AND SEASONABLE WEATHER TO CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA DAYS 4 AND 5. BY NEXT THURSDAY...A COLD FRONT APPROACHES BUT LOW LEVEL FLOW TURNS WESTERLY AHEAD OF THE FRONT AND IS LIKELY TO KEEP IT DRY. MODELS SHOW THIS TO BE FOLLOWED BY MORE SEASONABLE TEMPERATURES AND DRY AIR CONTROLLED BY A NORTHERN STREAM AIRMASS. -RFG .RAH...NONE. BLAES/RFG
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 9:30 AM EST, 6 hours before
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-192215- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1030 AM EDT FRI APR 19 2002 .SKYWARN SPOTTERS... SKYWARN SPOTTERS SHOULD STAND BY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION DURING THE LATE AFERNOON AND EVENING HOURS...MAINLY FROM 4 PM TO 10 PM. SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY DAMAGING OR HAZARDOUS WEATHER CONDITIONS PROMPTLY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. .SYNOPTIC PATTERN... A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS WITH NEAR RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES AT THE SURFACE WILL BE IN PLACE THIS AFTERNOON. A NARROW UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHING FROM THE WEST AND A LOW PRESSURE TROUGH IN THE PIEDMONT ARE EXPECTED TO STRENGTHEN SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA BY LATE AFTERNOON. .HAZARDOUS WEATHER DETAILS... IN ADDITION TO INTENSE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...THE MAIN THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER FROM SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL. LOCALIZED DOWNBURST WINDS MAY ALSO CAUSE ISOLATED DAMAGE TO TREES AND POWER LINES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. RFG
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 58 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:29 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 District of Columbia, April 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, April 19, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Ohio, April 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, April 19, 2002
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Ohio, April 19 to 20, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, April 19, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, April 19, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, April 19, 2002
- Flooding in Missouri, April 19 to 21, 2002
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Illinois, April 19 to 20, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, April 19, 2002
- Damaging Winds in New York, April 19, 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: 5284606.