Hail, Davie
- When
- July 2, 7:42 PM EST
- Where
- Davie County, 5 mi NE of Mocksville
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.950, -80.500
Hail was reported at the intersection of Highway 158 and Baltimore Rd.
Hail in North Carolina, July 2, 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 2, 5:32 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 5:32 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
632 PM EDT TUE JUL 2 2002
CONVECTIVE CLUSTER TRAINING S OVER THE NRN NC MTNS AND FOOTHILLS
WILL WORK OVER ALREADY SATURATED GROUND THROUGH THE EARLY OVERNIGHT.
WILL TOSS OUT A FLOOD WATCH TO HEIGHTEN AWARENESS IN THIS AREA. NO
OTHER CHANGES TO ZONES EXCEPT HYDRO WORDING AND HIGHER POPS.
FCSTID = 33
GSP 72 93 71 92 / 40 30 30 30
AND 72 93 71 92 / 40 30 30 30
CLT 69 93 68 92 / 30 30 30 30
HKY 69 91 68 90 / 30 30 30 30
AVL 68 88 67 87 / 50 40 40 30
.GSP...
GA...NONE.
NC...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 400 AM WEDNESDAY FOR ZONES
NCZ033>034...NCZ049>050...NCZ054>055.
SC...NONE.
HGIn the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 2, 5:54 PM EST, 1 hour 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
654 PM EDT TUE JUL 02 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
645 PM BRYSON CITY NC WIND DAMAGE
07/02/02 SWAIN TREES BLOWN DOWN IN
BRYSON CITY BETWEEN 630
AND 645 PM. TAR PAPER
PEELED FROM ROOF OF
COMMERCIAL BUILDING.
TJBLocal storm report, Jul 2, 6:04 PM EST, 1 hour 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
704 PM EDT TUE JUL 02 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
615 PM BELMONT NC WIND DAMAGE
07/02/02 GASTON TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN, SOME ON HOUSES
655 PM NEWLAND NC LIGHTNING
07/02/02 AVERY POWER OUTAGES AND
NUMEROUS LIGHTNING
STRIKES. CREEK ACROSS
ROAD IN NEWLAND BUT
SUBSIDING.
TJBLocal storm report, Jul 2, 6:24 PM EST, 1 hour 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
724 PM EDT TUE JUL 02 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
710 PM CLIFFSIDE NC WIND DAMAGE
07/02/02 RUTHERFORD COUNTY EOC REPORTS
NUMEROUS TREES BLOWN
DOWN.
HGSpecial weather statement, Jul 2, 6:40 PM EST, 1 hour 2 minutes before
SCZ007-030045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 740 PM EDT TUE JUL 2 2002 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM TO AFFECT NORTHERN SPARTANBURG COUNTY THROUGH 830 PM EDT... AT 740 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHESNEE...OR OVER THE NORTH CAROLINA BORDER. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH AND IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE AREA FROM CHESNEE TO FINGERVILLE TO CAMPOBELLO...INCLUDING THE LAKE BOWEN AREA. WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH...SMALL HAIL...AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WILL ACCOMPANY THIS THUNDERSTORM. BE PREPARED TO ACT QUICKLY IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. HG
Local storm report, Jul 2, 7:21 PM EST, 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
821 PM EDT TUE JUL 02 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
805 PM FINGERVILLE SC .75 INCH HAIL
07/02/02 SPARTANBURG DIME SIZE HAIL AT
FINGERVILLE AND LARGE
HAIL REPORTED ON NORTH
SIDE OF LAKE BOWEN.
TJBLocal storm report, Jul 2, 7:42 PM EST, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
842 PM EDT TUE JUL 02 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
835 PM 5 NE MOCKSVILLE NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
07/02/02 DAVIE REPORTED BY S.O. AT
INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY
158 AND BALTIMORE ROAD
LANEThe radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 121 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:43 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
- Heat in Maryland, July 2 to 4, 2002
- Heat in Connecticut, July 2 to 4, 2002
- Flooding and Hail in Georgia, July 2, 2002
- Flood in Texas, July 2 to 3, 2002
- Heat in Missouri, July 2, 2002
- Flood in Texas, July 2 to 6, 2002
- Hail and Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 2, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, July 2, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, July 2, 2002
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, July 2, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, July 2, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 2, 2002
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, 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: 5310689.