Hail, Pasquotank
- When
- April 25, 7:50 PM EST
- Where
- Pasquotank County, Elizabeth City
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 36.300, -76.233
Hail in North Carolina, April 25, 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 Wakefield, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 25, 2:04 PM EST, 5 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 25, 2:04 PM EST, 5 hours 46 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA 304 PM EDT THU APR 25 2002 SFC CDFNT REACHING THE CST IN THE NEXT CPL OF HRS...CONTG SCT SHRAS IN XTRM SE VA/NE NC WL BE ON THE WANE ERY THIS EVE. OTRW...DRYING OCCURRING ACRS FA AS WNWLY LLVL FLO INCRSG. SFC HI PRES FM MO MVS E TNGT/FRI...PRVDG DRY/NRLY SEASONABLE CONDS. MDLS SUGG DECENT CVRG OF CLDNS IN STRNG WLY FLO ALOFT REACHING THE FA DURG FRI...BUT ALL THE ACTION SHIFTS TO THE CNTRL PART OF THE NATION AS SYS FM SW CONUS BEGINS MVMNT TO THE ENE. LRG AREA OF MSTR/PCPN BREAKS OUT W OF MTNS FRI NGT/SAT MORNING...THEN TRIES TO INVADE/CRS THE MTNS SAT AFTN/EVE. WL CONT WITH CHC POPS FOR SAT AFTN...BEST CHCS FOR WDSPRD RA PTNTLLY SAT NGT/SUN MORNING. MOD WSWLY LLVL FLO TAKES OVR BY SUN AFTN/EVE...BRINGING WRMG AND LWRS PCPN CHCS. TMG OF SYSTEMS MUCH OF NEXT WK A CHALLENGE...XPCTG A CPL OF WRM AIR SURGES INTO THE RGN FM THE SW AS RDG IN GOM FLEXES ITS MUSCLE FM TM TO TM. HWVR...FA RMNS VRY CLS TO MAIN JET ALOFT...SO THERE MIGHT BE ONE OR MR BOUTS WITH WET WX AS WELL. WL GO WITH HIDDEN 20% MON THRU THU...SINCE NOT CONFIDENT WHEN OR IF THOSE PDS OF WET TAKE PLC. FCSTID = 25 .AKQ... MD...SMALL CRAFT ADVSY FENWICK ISLAND TO CHINCOTEAGUE. NC...SMALL CRAFT ADVSY VA/NC BRDR TO CURRITUCK BEACH LIGHT. VA...SMALL CRAFT ADVSY CHINCOTEAGUE TO VA/NC BRDR AND CHES BAY FROM SMITH PT TO CAPE HENRY.
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 103 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:44 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
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, April 25, 2002
- Rip Current in Florida, April 25, 2002
- Blizzard and Heavy Snow in Alaska, April 25 to 27, 2002
- Flood in Puerto Rico, April 25, 2002
- Heavy Snow in Maine, April 25 to 26, 2002
- Heavy Snow in New Hampshire, April 25 to 26, 2002
- Flood in Indiana, April 25 to 26, 2002
- Strong Wind in North Carolina, April 25, 2002
- Hail in Texas, April 25, 2002
- Flash Flood in Texas, April 25, 2002
- Marine Thunderstorm Wind in Lake Michigan, April 25, 2002
- Marine Thunderstorm Wind in North Atlantic Coastal Waters, April 25, 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: 5293461.