Hail, Currituck
- When
- July 4, 1:15 PM EST
- Where
- Currituck County, Moyock
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 36.533, -76.183
Hail in North Carolina, July 4, 2002
2 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
- 2
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 Jul 4, 9:00 AM EST, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 9:00 AM EST, 4 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA 1000 AM EDT THU JUL 4 2002 ONCE AGAIN TODAY...MORNING SOUNDINGS SHOW AMS EXTREMELY UNSTABLE...WITH NOT MUCH OF A CAP...ALTHOUGH LOWER LEVELS ARE NOT THAT MOIST...WITH DEWPTS DROPPING OFF WITH HEIGHT. MODIFIED REGIONAL SOUNDINGS SUGGEST 4000 TO 5000 J/KG OF CAPE GIVEN REALISTIC FCAST MAX TEMPS. GIVEN UNSTABLE AMS...BUT LACK OF ANY SYNOPTIC SCALE FORCING...AND WEAK SHEAR...EXPECT PULSE STORMS TO DEVELOP ONCE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON IN VICINITY OF ANY BOUNDARIES. ATTM...WINDS MOSTLY LIGHT N OVER INTERIOR SECTIONS...AND CALM SE...WITH WEAK CONVERGENCE OVER SE SECTIONS. OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM YDAS CONVECTION...AND WEAK SFC PRES GRADIENTS...MAKING FOR MOSTLY LIGHT NORTHERLY WINDS ACROSS MOST OF THE CWA THIS MORNING...WITH CALM WINDS SE...SO WEAK CONVERGENCE AXIS TODAY FARTHER S AND E THAN YDA. FOR THIS REASON...MIGHT EXPECT DEVELOPMENT (WIDELY SCT) TO BE A LITTLE FARTHER E...BUT HARD TO SAY EXACTLY HOW CONVERGENCE FIELDS WILL LOOK THIS AFTERNOON. FOR NOW...WILL KEEP LOW POPS EVERYWHERE...AND MONITOR VISIBLE SATELLITE FOR CU DEVLOPMENT TO GIVE CLUES AS TO WHERE AFTERNOON CONCENTRATION WILL BE. OTHER BIG STORY IS HEAT. HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF THE REGION...AS WERE LOOKING AT A SECOND DAY OF HEAT INDICES ABOVE 105 MOST INTERIOR LOCATIONS. MAY APPROACH RECORDS TODAY...WITH BEST CHANCE OF REACHING RECORD BEING AT RIC. RECORDS BELOW... RIC 98 SET IN 1900 ORF 98 SET IN 1997 SBY 100 SET IN 1919 ECG 100 SET IN 1997 FCSTID = 18 SBY 96 71 89 61 / 30 30 20 10 OXB 90 74 86 64 / 20 20 20 10 ECG 93 74 90 70 / 20 20 30 10 ORF 95 75 90 71 / 20 20 30 10 PHF 96 74 91 70 / 20 20 30 10 AKQ 98 72 93 68 / 30 30 30 10 RIC 99 72 91 65 / 30 30 20 10 FVX 96 72 92 64 / 30 30 20 10 .AKQ... MD...HEAT ADVISORY FOR TODAY FOR ZONES MDZ021>024. NC...HEAT ADVISORY FOR TODAY FOR ZONES NCZ012>013...NCZ015... NCZ030>032...NCZ014. VA...HEAT ADVISORY FOR TODAY FOR ZONES VAZ048>049...VAZ060>097... VAZ099>100. REILLY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 9:30 AM EST, 3 hours 45 minutes before
MDZ021>025-NCZ012>017-030>032-VAZ048-049-060>100-042000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED ISSUANCE DATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 1030 AM EDT THU JUL 4 2002 ...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THIS AFTERNOON...MUCH LIKE YESTERDAY...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND THE MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE OVER THE REST OF SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA...PORTIONS OF THE LOWER EASTERN SHORE...AND NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA. ALTHOUGH THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE WIDESPREAD...ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE SEVERE...AS THE ATMOSPHERE IS VERY UNSTABLE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION...SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING... WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH...HAIL UP TO THREE QUARTER INCH IN DIAMETER...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...AS THE STORMS WILL BE SLOW MOVING. SHOULD THE SLOW MOVING STORMS BECOME POSITIONED OVER URBAN AREAS...LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. REILLY
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 89 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:15 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Camden
- When
- July 4, 1:15 PM EST
- Where
- Camden County, Camden
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 36.333, -76.167
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 Florida, July 4, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, July 4, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Vermont, July 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Montana, July 4, 2002
- Hail and Lightning Strikes in Florida, July 4, 2002
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 4, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Georgia, July 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, July 4, 2002
- Lightning Strikes in North Carolina, July 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 4, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 4, 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: 5309752, 5309753.