Hail in North Carolina, May 27, 2002

Name: Hail in North Carolina, May 27, 2002
Start: 2002-05-27T11:45
End: 2002-05-27T12:00
Location: North Carolina

May 27, 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 May 27, 10:00 AM EST, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 10:00 AM EST, 1 hour 45 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1100 AM EDT MON MAY 27 2002

LATEST SOUNDING DATA FROM FFC AND GSO SHOW GOOD INSTABILITY WITH
MORNING INVERSION LEFT TO OVERCOME. MESOETA AND RUC40 SHOW A BELT OF
CAPES GREATER THAN 1000 J/KG WITH CIN VALUES LESS THAN -10 J/KG
ACROSS THE CWA. WITH GOOD AFTERNOON HEATING AND CONVECTIVE TEMPS IN
THE U70S TO L80S...WILL SPREAD THE CHANCE OF SH AND TS TO THE
UPSTATE AND PIEDMONT. BEST LIFT AND MOISTURE CONVERGENCE REMAINS
OVER THE MOUNTAINS...CURRENT RADAR IMAGE DEPICTS SOME WEAK ECHOS.
WITH WEAK TRANSPORT WINDS ALOFT SH / TS AND PRECIPITABLE H2O
APPROACHING 1.5 INCHES COULD SEE ISOLATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS EXCEEDING
AN INCH. REST OF THE GOING FORECAST LOOKS GOOD.

FCSTID = 16

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

NED

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 137 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:44 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Avery

When: May 27, 11:45 AM EST to 12:00 PM EST
Where: Avery County, Linville
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 36.083, -81.867

Hail accumulated to depths of 2 inches.

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

Every storm in North Carolina in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in North Carolina, May 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: 5298174.