Hail, Oconee
- When
- August 7, 1:45 PM EST
- Where
- Oconee County, 3 mi NW of Salem
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 34.917, -83.000
Hail in South Carolina, August 7, 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 7, 8:30 AM EST, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 8:30 AM EST, 5 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 930 AM EDT THU AUG 7 2003 FORECAST ON TRACK WITH SCT SHOWERS MOVING INTO MTNS...ISOLD ACROSS N FOOTHILLS/PIEDMONT ATTM. WILL UPDATE TO REMOVE MENTION OF FOG...NO OTHER CHANGES PLANNED. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR ZONES NCZ033>037... NCZ048>050...NCZ053>057...NCZ065>072...NCZ082. SC...FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR ZONES SCZ003... SCZ006>009...SCZ012>014. RB
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 7, 4:21 AM EST, 9 hours 24 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-071100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 521 AM EDT THU AUG 7 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA TODAY AND THIS EVENING. WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL EXPECTED...A FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE WATCH COVERS PORTIONS OF THE WESTERN CAROLINAS GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE THROUGH ASHEVILLE AND GREENVILLE. PLEASE SEE THE LATEST FLOOD WATCH (FFAGSP) FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS. OUTSIDE THE WATCH AREA...SCATTERED STORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. A FLOOD POTENTIAL OUTLOOK (ESFGSP) WILL ADDRESS CONCERNS FOR POSSIBLE FLOODING FOR TODAY THROUGH FRIDAY. IN ADDITION...SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LEVELS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PLEASE SEE THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK (SPSGSP) FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A FLOOD WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT. A UPPER AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL EXIST OVER THE FORECAST AREA FOR THE REST OF THE PERIOD. THIS SYSTEM WILL LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME MAY PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER AND/OR EXCESSIVE RAINFALL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY AND TONIGHT. NED
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 71 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:46 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
- Tornado in Florida, August 7, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, August 7, 2003
- Flash Flood in New York, August 7 to 8, 2003
- Tornado in Virginia, August 7, 2003
- Flash Flood in South Carolina, August 7, 2003
- Tornado in Florida, August 7, 2003
- Wildfire in Idaho, August 7 to 11, 2003
- Flash Flood in Massachusetts, August 7, 2003
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, August 7, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, August 7, 2003
- Flash Flood and Hail in Georgia, August 7, 2003
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 7, 2003
More
Every storm in South Carolina in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in South 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: 5333127.