Hail, Madison
- When
- June 4, 12:45 PM EST to 1:00 PM EST
- Where
- Madison County, Spring Creek
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 35.800, -82.850
Hail accumulated to depths of 2 inches.
Hail in North Carolina, June 4, 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 4, 9:12 AM EST, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 9:12 AM EST, 3 hours 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1012 AM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002 12Z UA ANALYSES INDICATE UPPER RIDGE STILL DOMINATING THE PATTERN OVER THE SE US...BUT COLD TROUGH NOTED AT 500 MB OVER THE CWFA & MID-LVL TEMPS IN GENERAL ARE SLIGHTLY COOLER THAN YSTDY. MODIFIED 12Z SNDGS YIELDED SBCAPES 3000-4000 J/KG THIS AFTERNOON WITH TRIGGERS FOR DEEP CONVECTION BEING MAINLY MESO BNDRYS & TERRAIN AIDED...WITH THE SSW LLVL FLOW. 00Z ETA DID INDICATE A WEAK S/WV & OMEGA BULLSEYE SKIRTING ACRS THIS AFTERNOON ALONG WITH A BULLSEYE OF UPPER LVL DIVERGENCE...BUT TOUGH TO PICK OUT ANY FEATURES ON ANALYZED 12Z CHARTS. AT ANY RATE...GIVEN DEGREE OF INSTABILITY & WEAK WIND SHEAR...SOME PULSE SEVERE POSSIBLE. ANYTHING MORE THAN TWEAKS IN MAXES/WINDS/POPS DOUBTFUL IN ZFP. FCSTID = 55 GSP 92 71 92 70 / 30 30 30 30 AND 92 71 92 70 / 30 30 30 30 CLT 93 70 93 70 / 30 20 30 30 HKY 92 69 89 69 / 20 20 30 30 AVL 86 66 85 66 / 40 30 40 40 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 10:31 AM EST, 2 hours 14 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-042030- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1131 AM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002 ...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA... ANOTHER HOT AND HUMID AFTERNOON WILL RESULT IN A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP BY MID AFTERNOON ACROSS THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA. THE DEGREE OF INSTABILITY EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON INDICATES THAT THESE STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING HAIL AS LARGE AS QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH. AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE PIEDMONT AND FOOTHILLS. THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER WILL EXIST WITH THESE STORMS AS WELL. IN ADDITION TO THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...STORMS DEVELOPING TODAY ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE VERY SLOWLY...WITH EXTREMELY HEAVY RAINFALL LIKELY. LOCAL FLASH FLOODING COULD RESULT...ESPECIALLY IF A STORM DEVELOPS OVER AN URBAN AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS...WATCHES...OR WARNINGS. JONES
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 64 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:43 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
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Texas, June 4, 2002
- Flood and Hail in Georgia, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 4, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Ohio, June 4 to 5, 2002
- Flash Flood in Wisconsin, June 4, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Indiana, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 4, 2002
- Flash Flood in Iowa, June 4, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, June 4, 2002
- Flood in Iowa, June 4, 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: 5305491.