Hail, Greenwood
- When
- May 11, 2:15 AM EST to 2:30 AM EST
- Where
- Greenwood County, 1 mi E of Greenwood
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.183, -82.150
Hail in South Carolina, May 11, 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
- $1,000
- 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 10, 9:18 PM EST, 4 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 10, 9:18 PM EST, 4 hours 57 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1018 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 2002 BOTH THE ETA AND AVN WANT TO GENERATE A FAIR AMOUNT OF QPF OVER THE SRN HALF OF THE CWA BEGINNING 6-9 UTC. THIS IS RESPONSE TO INCREASING UPGLIDE OVER LLVL BNDRY. UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT IS NOT GREAT AS WE WILL BE IN WEAK NVA BY THE TIME THE BEST LLVL OMEGA IS PROGGED BY THE MODELS. HOWEVER...I CAN/T IGNORE THE OMEGA AND THE QPF AND WL UP POPS TO LIKELY FORM CLT-AVL AND POINTS SOUTH. WL GO 50 POP NORTH OF THIS LINE. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. MCAVOY
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 78 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:16 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
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Missouri, May 11 to 12, 2002
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Kansas, May 11 to 12, 2002
- High Wind in Iowa, May 11, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Illinois, May 11 to 13, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 11, 2002
- Flooding in Iowa, May 11 to 14, 2002
- Flooding in Missouri, May 11 to 17, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, May 11, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Alabama, May 11, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 11, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Illinois, May 11 to 12, 2002
- High Surf in Hawaii, May 11 to 13, 2002
More
Every storm in South Carolina in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in South 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: 5298173.