Hail in North Carolina, June 1, 2002

Name: Hail in North Carolina, June 1, 2002
Start: 2002-06-01T18:24
End: 2002-06-01T18:24
Location: North Carolina

June 1, 2002 · NWS GSP · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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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 Jun 1, 1:45 PM EST, 4 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 1:45 PM EST, 4 hours 39 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
245 PM EDT SAT JUN 1 2002

UPPER TROUGH TO E AND CUTOFF LOW IN GULF PRODUCING NW FLOW AND UPPER
DIFFLUENCE OVER AREA. STORMS ASSOCIATED WITH MID LEVEL IMPULSE
TRACKING SE THROUGH VA MAY JUST CLIP OUR AREA...BUT ENOUGH SUPPORT
FOR SCATTERED CONVECTION THROUGH EVENING...ESPECIALLY NC. ANOTHER
IMPULSE SCHEDULED FOR 06Z...BUT WITH LOSS OF HEATING WILL JUST PLAY
UP MOUNTAINS WITH THIS ONE. YET ANOTHER IMPULSE CROSSES AREA
SUN...AND OTHER THAN SLIGHTLY WARMER TEMPS/DEW POINTS...FORECAST
LOOKS SIMILAR TO TODAY. NO VORT MAX SUNDAY NIGHT...AND WILL ALLOW
CONVECTION TO ASSUME A REGUALR DIURNAL PATTERN OF AFTERNOONS AND
EVENINGS INTO EXTENDED. BACK DOOR COLD FRONT APPEARS TO HALT JUST NE
OF AREA MON. WITH A FEW MORE CLOUDS AROUND...WILL FOLLOW GUIDANCE
AND COOL AREA A FEW DEGREES FROM SUN TO MON. MEANWHILE...MINIMUM
TEMPERATURES WILL COME UP WITH THE DEW POINTS...APPROACHING 70 LEE
OF MOUNTAINS.

LATEST MEDIUM RANGE GUIDANCE SUGGESTS SLOWING DOWN PROGRESSION OF
UPPER TROF AND FRONTAL BOUNDARY LATE IN THE WEEK...TO THE POINT
WHERE IT REMAINS TO OUR WEST THROUGH SATURDAY. THIS WILL KEEP THE
FORECAST AREA IN A RELATIVELY WARM AND HUMID AIR MASS THROUGH THE
PERIOD...WITH GUIDANCE POPS ABOVE CLIMO EACH DAY. ALTHO THE FORECAST
IS LOOKING LIKE A BROKEN RECORD...FEEL LIKE THE CHANCE OF
AFTERNOON/EVENING THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE EACH DAY. LITTLE
CHANGE NEEDED TO KEEP TEMPS IN LINE WITH LATEST GUIDANCE.

FCSTID =07
GSP   67  95  69  93 /  30  30  30  30
AND   66  96  68  94 /  30  30  30  30
CLT   66  94  68  92 /  40  40  40  40
HKY   65  93  67  91 /  40  40  40  40
AVL   62  90  64  88 /  40  40  40  40

.GSP...
GA...NONE.
NC...NONE.
SC...NONE.

JAT/PDM

In the hours before

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The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 113 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:24 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Lincoln

When: June 1, 6:24 PM EST
Where: Lincoln County, Boger City
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 35.483, -81.217

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

Every storm in North Carolina in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in North Carolina, June 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: 5305485.