Name: Hail in North Carolina, June 14, 2002
Start: 2002-06-14T14:22
End: 2002-06-14T14:22
Location: North Carolina

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 Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 14, 9:11 AM EST, 5 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 9:11 AM EST, 5 hours 11 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
1011 AM EDT FRI JUN 14 2002

NO ZFP UPDATE PLANNED.

CURRENT FCST IN GOOD SHAPE WITH 50/60 POPS FOR THIS AFTN. SVR THREAT
MAINLY INLAND AS SEA BREEZE WILL STABILIZE CONDITIONS NEAR COAST.
EXPECT MULTI-CELL LINE TO DEVELOP NEAR RDU-FAY WITH DIFFERENTIAL
HEATING AND SHORT WV MOVING IN...PUSHING INTO COASTAL PLAIN AROUND
21Z. SCT LOW-TOPPED ACTIVITY POSSIBLE ACROSS REST OF CWA THIS AFTN
BUT DEEP CONVECTION PRECLUDED BY SUBSIDENCE VERSION AT 700 MB PER
12Z MHX SOUNDING. TEMPS OK AND HEAT INDICES HANDLED BY CURRENT SPS.

CWF: SW WINDS TO BECOME SRLY THIS AFTN WITH APPROACH OF FRONT. NO
MAJOR ADJUSTMENTS TO CURRENT FCST.

.MHX...NONE.

JBM

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 2:12 PM EST, 10 minutes before

NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>095-098-103-142000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC
312 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 2002

A BROKEN LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST AT 25 MPH
ACROSS EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. BY 330 PM...THE STORMS WILL LIKELY
EXTEND FROM NORTHERN ONSLOW COUNTY TO TRENTON TO NEW BERN TO NEAR
WASHINGTON TO WILLIAMSTON.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF BECOMING SEVERE AS THEY
APPROACH THE COAST OF NORTH CAROLINA.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE
FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS WHICH CONTAIN DAMAGING WIND IN
EXCESS OF 55 MPH AND HAIL 3/4 INCH OR GREATER IN DIAMETER IN AND
CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN MAY
ALSO ACCOMPANY ANY THUNDERSTORMS.

COLBY

The radar

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Pitt

When: June 14, 2:22 PM EST
Where: Pitt County, Grifton
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 35.383, -77.617

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

More

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: 5297350.