Hail, Jackson
- When
- August 26, 4:35 PM EST
- Where
- Jackson County, Sylva
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 35.383, -83.217
Hail in North Carolina, August 26, 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 26, 2:12 PM EST, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 2:12 PM EST, 2 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 312 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003 ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FORMED OVER SOME OF THE HIGHER TERRAIN IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. THESE SHOULD BE SHORT-LIVED BUT HAVE INCLUDED LOW CHANCE POPS INTO THE EVENING TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS PRECIPITATION. OTHERWISE... SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE AND RIDGE ALOFT WILL CONTINUE GENERALLY DRY AND VERY WARM WEATHER FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. GUIDANCE SHOWS MID-LEVEL TEMPERATURES LOWER A DEGREE OR TWO THROUGH THURSDAY THUS WEAKENING SOMEWHAT THE CAPPING TENDENCY OF THE CURRENT AIRMASS. ALSO... LOW AND MID-LEVEL MOISTURE WILL BE INCREASING A BIT. EVEN THOUGH MAIN FRONT WILL REMAIN TO OUR NORTH THROUGH FRIDAY... WILL ADD LOW CHANCE POPS PRIMARILY TO MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS FOR AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... SURFACE FRONT APPROACHES MOUNTAINS THEN BECOMES NEARLY STATIONARY IN A NORTHEAST/SOUTHWEST ORIENTATION BY MONDAY AND TUESDAY. DIURNAL FORCING FOR CONVECTION WILL GIVE WAY TO CHANCE OF SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS AT ANY TIME OF DAY. LOWERING THICKNESSES AND MORE CLOUDINESS WILL RESULT IN DAYTIME TEMPERATURES CLOSER TO NORMAL. FCSTID = 6 GSP 71 92 71 89 / 10 10 10 20 AND 72 92 72 89 / 10 10 10 20 CLT 71 93 71 90 / 10 10 10 10 HKY 69 91 69 88 / 10 10 10 20 AVL 67 88 67 85 / 20 10 10 30 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. LGL/RWH
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 26, 4:55 AM EST, 11 hours 40 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-261200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 555 AM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED NEXT WEEKEND AND LABOR DAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. MCAVOY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 26, 3:05 PM EST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ034>037-054>057-066>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-270130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 405 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003 ...HOT WEATHER WILL CONTINUE WEDNESDAY... THE HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM THAT HAS BEEN DOMINATING THE WEATHER ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES FOR THE PAST COUPLE OF DAYS WILL REMAIN IN PLACE THROUGH WEDNESDAY. HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER 90S TOMORROW WILL COMBINE WITH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES IN THE 55 TO 65 PERCENT RANGE TO PRODUCE UNCOMFORTABLE HEAT INDICES. THE AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX ACROSS THE PIEDMONT AND FOOTHILLS OF THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA WILL INCH ABOVE THE 100 MARK AT SOME LOCATIONS. WARM AND HUMID WEATHER WILL PERSIST INTO THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND... BUT MORE CLOUDINESS AND SCATTERED SHOWERS BY SATURDAY WILL RESULT IN HIGH TEMPERATURES CLOSER TO THE NORMAL FOR THIS TIME OF THE YEAR. LGL
Local storm report, Aug 26, 4:16 PM EST, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
516 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
510 PM WAYNESVILLE NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
08/26/03 HAYWOOD TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED
MIX OF PENNY AND QUARTER
SIZED HAIL.
LAMB
NWUS52 KGSP 262117
LSRGSP
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
516 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
510 PM WAYNESVILLE NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
08/26/03 HAYWOOD TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED
MIX OF PENNY AND QUARTER
SIZED HAIL.
LAMBThe radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 89 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:33 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
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- Flash Flood in California, August 26, 2003
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Michigan, August 26, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, August 26, 2003
- Tornado and Hail in Indiana, August 26, 2003
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, August 26, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, August 26, 2003
- Flash Flood in California, August 26, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, August 26, 2003
More
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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: 5374295.