Hail in North Carolina, August 5, 2003

Name: Hail in North Carolina, August 5, 2003
Start: 2003-08-05T14:46
End: 2003-08-05T14:46
Location: North Carolina

August 5, 2003 · NWS GSP · 1 event in 1 county or zone

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

Open the live radar over this ground

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 5, 1:56 PM EST, 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 1:56 PM EST, 50 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
256 PM EDT TUE AUG 5 2003

CONVECTION ASSOCIATED WITH UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE DEVELOPING IN W AND
SPREADING E. ALTHOUGH SHORTWAVE EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH AREA RATHER
QUICKLY...WILL NEED TO CARRY HIGH POPS COINCIDENT WITH SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCHES EARLY THIS EVENING.

UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AXIS TO LINGER OVER E THIS PACKAGE...WITH
ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE REMAINING ALONG AND E OF MOUNTAINS. WEAK
BOUNDARY STILL HINTED AT BY MODELS...MOVING INTO WED AND REMAINING
THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. WEAK UPPER IMPULSES WILL PROVOKE SCATTERED
CONVECTION EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND WITH NO REAL CHANGE IN
AIR MASS...POPS AND TEMPERATURES NEAR PERSISTENCE THROUGH DAY 7.

FCSTID =    7
GSP   68  86  69  86 /  60  40  40  40
AND   69  88  69  88 /  60  40  40  40
CLT   68  87  69  87 /  60  40  40  40
HKY   65  85  67  84 /  60  40  40  40
AVL   62  82  64  81 /  60  40  40  40

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

O7

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 5, 4:05 AM EST, 10 hours 41 minutes before

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014-
019-051100-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
505 AM EDT TUE AUG 5 2003

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE WESTERN CAROLINAS
AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA TODAY. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD REACH
SEVERE LEVELS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL
CAN ALSO BE ANTICIPATED. SEE THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
(CAESPSGSP) FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE PERIOD...MAINLY
IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WITH THE GROUND NEARLY SATURATED
RAINFALL WILL RUNOFF INTO NEARBY STREAMS AND CREEKS. IF THESE HEAVY
RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP THROUGHOUT THE WEEK AS
EXPECTED...FLOODING MAY RESULT. SEE THE LATEST FLOOD POTENTIAL
OUTLOOK (ESFGSP) FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

NED

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 5, 9:50 AM EST, 4 hours 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1050 AM EDT TUE AUG 05 2003

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

835 PM     MILLS RIVER               NC   WIND DAMAGE
08/04/03   HENDERSON                      TREE DOWN ON NORTH MILLS
                                          RIVER RD AND ANOTHER ON
                                          SOUTH MILLS RIVER RD IN
                                          YARD.  CORN BLOWN FLAT
                                          AND SMALL HAIL WITH
                                          STORM.

950 PM     DUNCAN                    SC   .75 INCH HAIL
08/04/03   SPARTANBURG                    SPOTTER REPORTED DIME
                                          SIZE HAIL 2 NORTH OF
                                          DUNCAN.

TJB

Local storm report, Aug 5, 10:02 AM EST, 4 hours 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1102 AM EDT TUE AUG 05 2003

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

830 PM     MILLS RIVER               NC   FLASH FLOOD
08/04/03   HENDERSON                      COOP OBSERVER REPORTED
                                          CREEK OVERFLOWED ACROSS N
                                          MILLS RIVER ROAD NEAR HIS
                                          HOME.   RAINFALL 3.90
                                          INCHES MEASURED IN HIS
                                          GAGE IN 1 HR 45 MIN.

TJB

Local storm report, Aug 5, 12:20 PM EST, 2 hours 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
120 PM EDT TUE AUG 05 2003

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

1000 PM    GREER                     SC   WIND DAMAGE
08/04/03   GREENVILLE                     GREER PUBLIC WORKS
                                          REPORTED NUMEROUS TREES
                                          AND POWERLINES DOWNED ON
                                          VICTOR MILLS AND OLD
                                          WOODRUFF ROADS...CAUSING
                                          CONSIDERABLE POWER
                                          OUTAGES.

LAMB

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 94 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:44 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment

Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Gaston

When: August 5, 2:46 PM EST
Where: Gaston County, Cherryville
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 35.383, -81.383

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

Every storm in North Carolina in 2003 Every state in 2003 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5333044.