Hail, Union
- When
- April 10, 6:05 AM EST
- Where
- Union County, Unionville
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 35.083, -80.517
Hail in North Carolina, April 10, 2003
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 Apr 10, 6:00 AM EST, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 6:00 AM EST, 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
700 AM EDT THU APR 10 2003
WILL ISSUE UPDATE THIS MORNING TO ADD SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO THE
EASTERN GROUP NEARER BETTER 850 TO 500 MB LAPSE RATES.
FCSTID = 33
.GSP...
GA...FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR ZONES GAZ010...
GAZ017>018...GAZ026...GAZ028>029.
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR ZONE GAZ010.
NC...WINTER STORM WARNING FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR ZONES
NCZ033...NCZ048>053...NCZ058>059...NCZ062>065.
FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR ZONES
NCZ033>037...NCZ048>059...NCZ062>072...NCZ082.
SC...FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR ZONES SCZ001>014...SCZ019.
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR ZONES
SCZ001>003.
HGHazardous weather outlook, Apr 10, 5:00 AM EST, 1 hour 5 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-101200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 600 AM EDT THU APR 10 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY DEEP LOW PRESSURE SPINNING OVER THE SOUTHEAST WILL BRING ABUNDANT RAINFALL TO THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA THROUGH TONIGHT. PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES MAY CREATE FLOODING TODAY AND TONIGHT ON STREAMS AND RIVERS ACROSS THE AREA. A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE ENTIRE AREA THROUGH TONIGHT. PLEASE SEE THE PRODUCT FFAGSP FOR DETAILS ON THE FLOOD WATCH. COLD AIR ALOFT UNDER THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL FURTHER ALLOW SOME OF THE PRECIPITATION TO CHANGE OVER TO SNOW AT THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE MOUNTAINS. SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS WILL RANGE FROM AN INCH OR LESS IN MOUNTAIN VALLEYS TO 6 TO 12 INCHES AT ELEVATIONS ABOVE 4000 FEET. PLEASE SEE THE WINTER STORM WARNING...WSWGSP...FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO RELAY ANY FLOODING OR HEAVY SNOWFALL REPORTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. HG
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 10, 2:05 AM EST, 4 hours before
NCZ034-054-055-066-067-101500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 305 AM EDT THU APR 10 2003 ...SOME SNOW POSSIBLE IN THE HIGH TERRAIN OF THE FOOTHILLS... THE SNOW LEVEL WILL DROP TODAY...AND BY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT COULD DROP LOW ENOUGH TO CAUSE SOME SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS IN THE HIGH ELEVATIONS OF THE FOOTHILLS. SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATIONS ARE NOT EXPECTED FROM TRYON TO LAKE LURE...BUT SOME AREAS FROM THE TOP OF THE OLD FORT GRADE...TO LITTLE SWITZERLAND...JONAS RIDGE...AND LINVILLE GORGE COULD HAVE MORE ACCUMULATION. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY COULD BE REQUIRED LATER TODAY FOR THOSE PARTS OF THE FOOTHILLS. PEOPLE PLANNING TO TRAVEL INTO THE MOUNTAINS LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME SNOW. JONES
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 138 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:03 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
- Tropical Storm in Guam, April 10, 2003
- Flash Flood in Hawaii, April 10, 2003
- Flood in North Carolina, April 10 to 11, 2003
- Flood in North Carolina, April 10, 2003
- Strong Wind in Virginia, April 10 to 11, 2003
- Flood in North Carolina, April 10, 2003
- Flooding in Tennessee, April 10 to 11, 2003
- Strong Wind in North Carolina, April 10, 2003
- Flooding and Strong Wind in Virginia, April 10, 2003
- Flooding and Strong Wind in North Carolina, April 10, 2003
- Flooding in North Carolina, April 10, 2003
- Heavy Snow in North Carolina, April 10, 2003
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, 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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5355151.