Name: Hail in South Carolina, July 4, 2002
Start: 2002-07-04T16:41
End: 2002-07-04T16:41
Location: South Carolina

Where it happened

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Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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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 Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 4, 1:30 PM EST, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 1:30 PM EST, 3 hours 11 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
230 PM EDT THU JUL 4 2002

ISOLATED CONVECTION ONGOING INTERIOR AREAS. EXPECT THIS ACTIVITY TO
DIE AWAY DURING THE EVENING.

MORE OF THE SAME TOMORROW WITH CONVECTION DEVELOPING ALONG MESOSCALE
BOUNDARIES LEFT OVER FROM ONGOING CONVECTION.

HIGHER POPS FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY NIGHT IN ASSOCIATION WITH
COLD FRONT SAGGING N TO S. MODELS BRING COLD FRONT INTO AREA LATE
FRIDAY NIGHT/EARLY SATURDAY WITH DRIER AIR OOZING INTO THE AREA ON
N/NE WIND LATER SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT.

HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING SOUTH AND INTO AREA FOR SUNDAY AND MONDAY AND
SO KEPT CONVECTION OUT OF FORECAST WITH INCREASING SUBSIDENCE.

HUGH RIDGE IN WEST BUILDS EVEN FURTHER TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY AND
THIS CAUSES HEIGHTS TO FALL ALONG EAST COAST. THIS SHOULD HELP BRING
A SURFACE TROUGH INTO THE AREA LATE WEDNESDAY/EARLY THURSDAY.

INCLUDED POPS IN THE FORECAST TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY WITH ONSHORE FLOW
AND SLIGHTLY HIGHER POPS LATE WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY IN ASSOCIATION WITH
SURFACE TROUGH.

MARINE: LIGHT SW FLOW CONTINUES THROUGH THE FIRST PERIOD.
STRENGTHENING TROF INLAND WILL EVENTUALLY BACK THE WINDS AROUND TO
MORE OF A SE/E DIRECTION. ETA WANTS TO BRING WINDS AROUND FRIDAY
MORNING...NGM AND AVN WAIT UNTIL THE BACKDOOR FRONT GETS MIXED INTO
THE EQUATION SATURDAY AFTERNOON. LUCKILY SPEEDS WILL REMAIN VERY
LIGHT REGARDLESS. WILL KEEP CURRENT CWF SPLIT FOR DIFFERING
DIRECTIONS WITH THE FRONT...OTHERWISE FEW CHANGES FROM CURRENT
FORECAST.

FCSTID = 27
ILM  72 93 73 89 /  10 20 30 40
LBT  70 96 70 89 /  20 20 30 40
FLO  71 96 71 90 /  20 20 30 40
MYR  73 88 73 89 /  10 20 30 40

.ILM...
NC...NONE.
SC...NONE.

DIGIORGI

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 4, 1:09 PM EST, 3 hours 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
209 PM EDT THU JUL 4 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0145 PM    MCCOLL                    SC   .75 INCH HAIL
07/04/02   MARLBORO                       REPORTED BY SPOTTERS

0201 PM    CLIO                      SC   .75 INCH HAIL
07/04/02   MARLBORO                       REPORTED BY SPOTTERS

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Local storm report, Jul 4, 1:15 PM EST, 3 hours 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
215 PM EDT THU JUL 4 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0145 PM    MCCOLL                    SC   .50 INCH HAIL
07/04/02   MARLBORO                       REPORTED BY SPOTTERS

DIGIORGI

Local storm report, Jul 4, 1:21 PM EST, 3 hours 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...FINAL CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
221 PM EDT THU JUL 4 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0140 PM    MCCOLL                    SC   .50 INCH HAIL
07/04/02   MARLBORO                       REPORTED BY SPOTTERS

0201 PM    CLIO                      SC   .75 INCH HAIL
07/04/02   MARLBORO                       REPORTED BY FIRE DEPT

TRA

Local storm report, Jul 4, 3:58 PM EST, 43 minutes before

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The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:43 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Williamsburg

When: July 4, 4:41 PM EST
Where: Williamsburg County, 2 mi NW of Henry
Measured: 1.5 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 33.700, -79.517

Law enforcement reported walnut size hail.

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

More

Every storm in South Carolina in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in South Carolina, July 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5310563.