Hail, Buncombe
- When
- June 20, 1:40 PM EST
- Where
- Buncombe County, 4 mi NW of Leicester
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 35.683, -82.750
Hail in North Carolina, June 20, 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 Jun 20, 9:43 AM EST, 3 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 9:43 AM EST, 3 hours 57 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1043 AM EDT THU JUN 20 2002 AREA SOUNDINGS ONCE AGAIN INDICATE VERY SHALLOW LAYER OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING. THIS SHOULD MIX OUT NICELY DURING THE AFTERNOON...LEAVING A RATHER DRY SURFACE AIRMASS FOR LATE JUNE. WITH 500MB THERMAL TROUGH POSITIONED OVER THE AREA...AM STILL CONCERNED THAT A FEW MORE STORMS COULD INITIATE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY IN THE SAME AREAS THAT RECEIVED CONVECTION YESTERDAY. PLAN ON ADDING ISOLATED THUNDER ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS... WHERE DIFFERENTIAL HEATING WILL BE A FACTOR...AND ACROSS THE UPSTATE AND SOUTHWEST PIEDMONT...WHICH WILL BE IN VICINITY OF 500MB SHEAR AXIS. ALREADY BEGINNING TO SEE CU FIELD DEVELOPMENT EAST OF THE BLUE RIDGE...AND WILL GO AHEAD AND BUMP SKY COVERAGE UP TO PARTLY CLOUDY. TEMPS LOOK GOOD IN GENERAL...AND PLAN ONLY A FEW TWEAKS. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. LANE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 1:22 PM EST, 18 minutes before
GAZ010-017-NCZ033-048>053-058-059-062>065-SCZ001>003-202200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 222 PM EDT THU JUN 20 2002 THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN THE MOUNTAINS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON...AND INTO THE EARLY EVENING. COVERAGE OF THE STORMS WILL NOT BE WIDESPREAD. HOWEVER...SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG...WITH PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH OR HIGHER. CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL OCCUR IN THE MOUNTAINS...SO PEOPLE IN OUTDOOR AREAS SHOULD MOVE TO SAFETY BEFORE A STORM ARRIVES. A STORM OR TWO COULD PRODUCE A BIT LARGER HAIL...UP TO DIME OR QUARTER SIZE...AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS COULD BECOME NECESSARY IN THOSE CASES. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. JONES
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 80 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:38 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 Wisconsin, June 20, 2002
- Hail in New Mexico, June 20, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 20, 2002
- Hail in Iowa, June 20, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, June 20 to 21, 2002
- Hail in Nebraska, June 20 to 21, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Texas, June 20, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Colorado, June 20 to 21, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, June 20 to 21, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Colorado, June 20, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 20, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 20, 2002
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5305774.