Hail in Georgia, April 29, 2003

Name: Hail in Georgia, April 29, 2003
Start: 2003-04-29T20:25
End: 2003-04-29T20:25
Location: Georgia

April 29, 2003 · 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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Fire, smoke and dust
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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 Apr 29, 2:22 PM EST, 6 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 2:22 PM EST, 6 hours 3 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
322 PM EDT TUE APR 29 2003

LAPS 18Z CAPES ARE RUNNING GENERALLY >1500 J/KG WITH LITTLE CIN.
RADAR SHOWING A FEW SH AND TS DEVELOPING OVER NC COUNTIES. WITH AN
OLD BOUNDARY...LEE TROF...AND THE AMOUNT OF INSTABILITY OVER THE FA
EXPECT THE POPULATION OF SH/TS TO GROW INTO THE EARLY EVENING. HAVE
HELD ONTO MENTION INTO THE EVENING HOURS AS STORMS WILL GRADUALLY
ASH OUT AFTER DUSK. IN THE MEANTIME...STORMS WILL BE PULSE-LIKE AND
WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE A ISOLATED WIND OR HAIL EVENT.

H5 RIDGE WILL BUILD OVERNIGHT AND OVERALL A SUMMER-LIKE PATTERN.
AGAIN DIURNAL TS STILL THE MAIN CONCERN FOR WEDNESDAY. WITH RETURN
FLOW AHEAD OF DEVELOPING PLAINS LOW DEWPOINTS WILL REMAIN IN THE U50
AND L60S WITH ANOTHER DAY IN THE 70-80S. ATMOS MOISTURE WILL ALSO
INCREASE MAKING A INTERESTING AFTERNOON SOUNDING. MODIFIED TO
EXPECTED LLVL VALUES CAPES ARE EXPECTED IN THE 1500-2500 J/KG RANGE.
WITH A MORE FAVORABLE WIND PATTERN WILL KEEP CHC POPS UP AROUND 40%.
THIS IS SUPPORTED WITH MOS POPS...AND COULD BE TOO LOW...ESPECIALLY
WITH FWC THUNDER POPS IN THE LIKELY RANGE. THURS...AGAIN DIURNAL TS
IS THE MAIN CONCERN. FRI...A FOCUSING MECHANISM ARRIVES IN THE FROM
OF A COLD FRONT. INSTABILITY REMAINS IN PLACE AND WILL KEEP CHC POPS
FOR CONVECTION.

A COLD FRONT SHOULD CROSS THE FORECAST AREA SATURDAY MORNING. ALTHO
THERE IS SOME POSSIBILITY OF LINGERING SHOWERS AFTER SUNRISE AS
HINTED BY THE 00Z GFS...WILL KEEP THE FORECAST DRY BASED ON THE
DRIER 06Z RUN...THINKING THAT ANY POST FRONTAL CONVECTION WILL NOT
DEVELOP UNTIL AFTERNOON WHEN FRONT IS NEARLY TO THE COAST. LATEST
GUIDANCE TEMPS ARE MUCH WARMER FOR SATURDAY AFTERNOON. WILL RAISE
TEMPS A CATEGORY THINKING THAT CLEAR SKY BEHIND FRONT AND DOWNSLOPE
E OF MOUNTAINS WILL MORE THAN COUNTERACT WEAK COLD ADVECTION IN THE
AFTERNOON. SUNDAY AND MONDAY ARE QUIET AND GUIDANCE WILL BE FOLLOWED
CLOSELY. ON TUESDAY...THE GFS DEVELOPS A RETURN FLOW OF MOISTURE
ACROSS THE AREA. PRECIP IN GFS IS NO DOUBT OVERDONE IN THE
MOISTENING PRE-FRONTAL AIR MASS THAT SHOULD BE IN PLACE...BUT
SCATTERED CONVECTION SEEMS A GOOD BET.

FCSTID =   16
GSP   60  80  59  80 /  50  40  40  30
AND   59  81  59  80 /  40  40  40  30
CLT   58  81  59  81 /  30  40  40  30
HKY   58  77  59  78 /  50  40  40  30
AVL   55  76  55  77 /  50  40  40  30

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

NED/MOORE

Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 29, 5:10 AM EST, 15 hours 15 minutes before

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014-
019-291210-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
610 AM EDT TUE APR 29 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA...
UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA.

.DAY ONE...

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE...MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON.
A FEW THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN
AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY EVEN SOME SMALL
HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

EXPECT A DAILY CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 29, 5:31 PM EST, 2 hours 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
631 PM EDT TUE APR 29 2003

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

615 PM     3 W TOLUCA                NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/29/03   CLEVELAND                      SPOTTER REPORTED NEAR
                                          INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY
                                          10 AND 18

JONES

Local storm report, Apr 29, 5:36 PM EST, 2 hours 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
636 PM EDT TUE APR 29 2003

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

625 PM     DEMOREST                  GA   1.25 INCH HAIL
04/29/03   HABERSHAM                      GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL NEAR
                                          HOSPITAL.

KRENTZ

Special weather statement, Apr 29, 6:41 PM EST, 1 hour 44 minutes before

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014-
019-300200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
741 PM EDT TUE APR 29 2003

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY DECREASING ACROSS THE WESTERN
CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA...

AS OF 730 PM...THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT PRODUCED LARGE HAIL ACROSS
PORTIONS OF UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...NORTHEAST GEORGIA...AND WESTERN
NORTH CAROLINA WERE CONTINUING TO WEAKEN RAPIDLY...AND BECOMING LESS
NUMEROUS. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOME OF THESE LINGERING STORMS COULD
BRIEFLY BECOME SEVERE OVER THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. OTHERWISE...LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN CONCERNS WITH THESE
STORMS. THE STORMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO WEAKEN...AND MOST OF THE
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO DISSIPATE BY LATE EVENING.

LANE

Local storm report, Apr 29, 6:52 PM EST, 1 hour 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
752 PM EDT TUE APR 29 2003

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

745 PM     PICKENS                   SC   .75 INCH HAIL
04/29/03   PICKENS                        SD REPORTED PENNY HAIL IN
                                          TOWN

JONES

Special weather statement, Apr 29, 7:00 PM EST, 1 hour 25 minutes before

SCZ002-005-300700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
800 PM EDT TUE APR 29 2003

...STRONG STORM AFFECTING PICKENS COUNTY...

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT PORTIONS OF PICKENS COUNTY THROUGH
9 PM...INCLUDING THE COMMUNITIES OF PICKENS...NINE TIMES...SIX MILE
AND LIBERTY. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES...TORRENTIAL RAINFALL AND
WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH MAY ACCOMPANY THIS STORM.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF
THIS STORM...AND IF FURTHER INTENSIFICATION OCCURS...A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING MAY BE REQUIRED.

LANE

Special weather statement, Apr 29, 7:58 PM EST, 27 minutes before

NCZ062-300200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
858 PM EDT TUE APR 29 2003

...HAIL STORM TO AFFECT EXTREME SOUTHWEST MACON COUNTY...

AT 844 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A NEARLY STATIONARY
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FRANKLIN...OR 2 MILES
SOUTH OF RAINBOW SPRINGS ON THE POLK COUNTY LINE. COUNTY OFFICIALS
REPORTED THAT SMALL HAIL HAD ACCUMULATED TO A DEPTH OF 4 TO 6 INCHES
BENEATH THIS STORM. ANY HAIL ACCUMULATION THAT HAS OCCURRED ON
ROADWAYS WILL MAKE THEM SLICK AND HAZARDOUS. HAIL ACCUMULATION CAN
ALSO CLOG DRAINANGE AREAS...WHICH COULD COMBINE WITH HEAVY RAINFALL
TO PRODUCE AREAS OF STANDING WATER.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF
THIS STORM.

LANE

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 91 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:24 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Elbert

When: April 29, 8:25 PM EST
Where: Elbert County, 8 mi NE of Elberton
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 34.200, -82.767

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 Georgia in 2003 Every state in 2003 This day in weather history Warnings in Georgia, April 2003

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: 5355257.