Hail, Iredell
- When
- August 16, 1:15 AM EST
- Where
- Iredell County, Statesville
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 35.783, -80.900
Hail in North Carolina, August 16, 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 Aug 15, 9:03 PM EST, 4 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 9:03 PM EST, 4 hours 12 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1003 PM EDT FRI AUG 15 2003 CURRENT ZONES HAVE CHANCE TSRA THE REST OF THE NGHT. THIS SEEMS REASONABLE AS THE ETA INCREASES LLVL CONVERGENCE ALONG AND E OF THE MTNS W/INCREASINGLY DIFFLUENT PATTERN ALOFT. THIS COULD RESULT IN SOME LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING PROBLEMS IN THE MTNS W/HIGH PW/S OVER THE WRN ZONES...BUT EXPECT COVERAGE TO REMAIN SCATTERED. WL MAKE SOME CHANGES TO GRIDS...BUT NOT ENUF TO WARRANT A ZONE UPDATE. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. MCAVOY
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 15, 4:52 AM EST, 20 hours 23 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-151200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 552 AM EDT FRI AUG 15 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY PATCHY DENSE FOG WILL REDUCE VISIBILITY TO ONE QUARTER MILE OR LESS ACROSS PARTS OF THE PIEDMONT EARLY THIS MORNING...MAINLY ACROSS THE CHARLOTTE METRO AREA. THE FOG SHOULD LIFT BY MID MORNING. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... MAINLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE MORE NUMEROUS IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING ON BOTH SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN IN THE FORECAST FOR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. MOORE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 15, 8:40 PM EST, 4 hours 35 minutes before
NCZ053-054-065>067-160230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 940 PM EDT FRI AUG 15 2003 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN BUNCOMBE COUNTY... AT 938 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF BLACK MOUNTAIN...NEAR GROVESTONE...ALONG INTERSTATE 40. THE STORM HAD NOT QUITE REACHED SEVERE LIMITS...BUT WAS ASSOCIATED WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN AND ABUNDANT LIGHTNING. AS THE STORM WEAKENS...WIND GUSTS TO NEARLY 45 MPH MAY BE EXPERIENCED ON THE WEST SIDE OF BLACK MOUNTAIN...AND RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEAST BUNCOMBE COUNTY ALONG AND NEAR HIGHWAY 9 AS IT DRIFTS TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST. EVENTUALLY...THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL BRING MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN TO EAST FLAT ROCK...BAT CAVE AND LAKE LURE. THE STORM MAY ALSO AFFECT EXTREME SOUTHWEST MCDOWELL COUNTY...BUT IS EXPECTED TO STAY AWAY FROM OLD FORT. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. BURRUS
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 149 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:16 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 Flood and Hail in Massachusetts, August 16, 2003
- Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, August 16, 2003
- Wildfire and Dust Devil in Montana, August 16, 2003
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, August 16, 2003
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Virginia, August 16 to 17, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Georgia, August 16, 2003
- Flash Flood and Hail in Maryland, August 16, 2003
- Wildfire in Montana, August 16 to 31, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Maryland, August 16, 2003
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, August 16 to 17, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, August 16, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, August 16, 2003
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, August 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: 5374147.