Name: Hail in North Carolina, June 20, 2003
Start: 2003-06-20T13:35
End: 2003-06-20T13:35
Location: North Carolina

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

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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 Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 20, 1:30 PM EST, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 1:30 PM EST, 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 20, 9:31 AM EST, 4 hours 4 minutes before

NCZ087-096-097-099>101-SCZ017-023-024-032>034-039-046-202030-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
1031 AM EDT FRI JUN 20 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
AND NORTHEASTERN SOUTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF
A COLD FRONT THAT WILL BE APPROACHING THE COAST. THE PRIMARY THREAT
OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

ALSO...FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG PORTIONS OF THE GREAT PEE DEE
RIVER. SEE THE LATEST RIVER FLOOD STATEMENT ISSUED BY NWS
WILMINGTON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

THE GREAT PEE DEE RIVER WILL CONTINUE ABOVE ITS FLOOD STAGE. SEE THE
LATEST RIVER FLOOD STATEMENTS AND DAILY RIVER AND LAKE SUMMARIES
ISSUED BY NWS WILMINGTON

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND THIS EVENING.

HAWKINS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 20, 10:42 AM EST, 2 hours 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
1142 AM EDT FRI JUN 20 2003

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

0656 PM    1 NE LAKE VIEW            SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/19/03   DILLON                         TREES DOWN

DRH

Local storm report, Jun 20, 1:17 PM EST, 18 minutes before

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The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 53 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:35 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Columbus

When: June 20, 1:35 PM EST
Where: Columbus County, 5 mi S of Cerro Gordo
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 34.250, -78.917

A spotter reported quarter size hail and strong winds.

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

More

Every storm in North Carolina in 2003 Every state in 2003 This day in weather history Warnings in North Carolina, June 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: 5364501.