Hail, Duplin
- When
- August 19, 2:15 PM EST
- Where
- Duplin County, Wallace
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 34.733, -78.000
Hail in North Carolina, August 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 Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 19, 9:00 AM EST, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 9:00 AM EST, 5 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 1000 AM EDT MON AUG 19 2002 NO UPDATED PLANNED TO ZFP...A SUBSIDENT AND NVA REGIME XPTD ACRS THE CWA GOOD CHUNK OF DAY IN WAKE OF DEPARTING S-WAVE ENERGY MOVG OFFSHORE. DWNSLP TRAJ WILL TURN THE BROILER ON AND ZFP CURRENTLY HEADLINING THE HEAT. AVN AND RUC80 DEPICT WEAK SWIRL DROPPING ESE OUT OF VA LATE IN THE DAY WITH WEAK H7-H5 LIFT NR 00Z. WITH SIG LOWER TROP HEATING AND MOD CAPES ABV 4000...SLGT CHC LATE DAY TSTMS LOOKS FINE EVEN THOUGH 500 MB TEMPS HAVE WARMED A DEG OR 2. MARINE: INTERESTING CONVECTIVE COMPLEX OVER THE GULF STREAM BUT WILL NOT HAVE ANY SIG IMPACT ON TODAYS MAINE WX. CONSENSUS OF MODELS IS TO HAVE A LGT N OR VRB FLOW BECOMING S/SE LATE IN THE DAY. WILL TWEAK FCST TO REFLECT CURRENT AND FCST TRENDS. .MHX...NONE. COLBY/ELARDO
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 92 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:16 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
- Lightning Strike in Mississippi, August 19, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 19, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in North Carolina, August 19, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, August 19, 2002
- Flash Flood in Florida, August 19, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Indiana, August 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, August 19, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Illinois, August 19, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 19, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 19, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Illinois, August 19, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, August 19, 2002
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, August 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: 5314338.