Hail in South Carolina, May 3, 2003

Name: Hail in South Carolina, May 3, 2003
Start: 2003-05-03T18:00
End: 2003-05-03T18:00
Location: South Carolina

May 3, 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.

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Wind
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Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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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 Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 3, 2:25 PM EST, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 2:25 PM EST, 3 hours 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
325 PM EDT SAT MAY 3 2003

UPDATE: UPDATING FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 221 ALONG AND E OF
BLUE RIDGE.

SHORTWAVE MOVES SE ACROSS VA TONIGHT...SUPPORTING BEST CHANCE OF
CONVECTION ALONG I-40 CORRIDOR. COLD FRONT DROPS S THROUGH
AREA...REDUCING MOISTURE ENOUGH BY SUN TO DROP POPS. BY SUN NIGHT
SURFACE RIDGE ALONG EASTERN SEABOARD...WITH ISENTROPIC LIFT BRINGING
CLOUDS AND POPS BACK INTO FORECAST. ATMOSPHERE STABLE SUN NIGHT
...BUT DESTABILIZES MON AND TUE AS WEDGE LIKE FEATURE BEGINS TO
ERRODE...GULF OPENS...AND TN VALLEY COLD FRONT APPROACHES. REMNANTS
OF FRONT REACH AREA TUE.

COLD FRONT STALLS ACROSS THE AREA AS WAVES OF LOW PRESSURE MOVE
ALONG IT WEDNESDAY. FRONT SLOWLY MOVES SOUTH OF THE AREA FRIDAY AS
HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FROM THE NORTH. SFC RIDGING CONTINUES
SATURDAY. LEFT CONVECTION IN THRU THU. KEPT TEMPS CLOSE TO GUIDANCE.
THIS MEANT RAISING MAXES THRU MUCH OF THE PERIOD. COOLER TEMPS BY
DAY 7.

FCSTID =    7
GSP   56  74  57  71 /  40  10  40  50
AND   56  75  59  73 /  30  10  40  50
CLT   54  74  54  69 /  40  10  40  40
HKY   51  72  53  64 /  50  10  30  40
AVL   49  70  56  67 /  40  10  30  40

.GSP...
GA...NONE.
NC...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 040000 ALONG AND E OF BLUE
RIDGE..
SC...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 040000 EXCEPT ABBEVILLE AND
GREENWOOD.

O7

Hazardous weather outlook, May 3, 4:30 AM EST, 13 hours 30 minutes before

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014-
019-031130-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
530 AM EDT SAT MAY 3 2003

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL REDEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE
APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS...AND MOVE ACROSS THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT
OF THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA DURING THE AFTERNOON
AND EVENING. IN ASSOCIATION WITH THESE STORMS...ANOTHER OUTBREAK OF
SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA. PLEASE SEE CAESPSGSP FOR
DETAILS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON.

LANE

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 3, 5:22 PM EST, 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
622 PM EDT SAT MAY 03 2003

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

619 PM     10 SE LENOIR              NC   .88 INCH HAIL
05/03/03   CALDWELL                       SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          NICKEL-SIZED HAIL AT
                                          GRANITE FALLS.

BURRUS

Local storm report, May 3, 5:33 PM EST, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
633 PM EDT SAT MAY 03 2003

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

600 PM     TIGERSVILLE               SC   .88 INCH HAIL
05/03/03   GREENVILLE                     COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTS
                                          NICKLE SIZE HAIL.

KRENTZ

Local storm report, May 3, 5:41 PM EST, 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
641 PM EDT SAT MAY 03 2003

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

638 PM     13 SW PICKENS             SC   .75 INCH HAIL
05/03/03   PICKENS                        HAM RADIP REPORT OF
                                          DIME-SIZED HAIL AT
                                          CLEMSON.

638 PM     SPARTANBURG               SC   .75 INCH HAIL
05/03/03   SPARTANBURG                    HAM RADIO REPORT OF
                                          DIME-SIZED HAIL IN
                                          SPARTANBURG.

BURRUS

Local storm report, May 3, 5:48 PM EST, 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
648 PM EDT SAT MAY 03 2003

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

644 PM     10 S PICKENS              SC   .88 INCH HAIL
05/03/03   PICKENS                        SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          NICKEL-SIZED HAIL.

BURRUS

Local storm report, May 3, 5:50 PM EST, 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
650 PM EDT SAT MAY 03 2003

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

643 PM     MOORESVILLE               NC   .75 INCH HAIL
05/03/03   IREDELL                        HAM OPERATOR REPORTED
                                          DIME SIZE HAIL.

645 PM     DOWNTOWN SPARTANBURG      SC   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/03/03   SPARTANBURG                    SPOTTER REPORTED QUARTER
                                          SIZE HAIL.

650 PM     EAST SPARTANBURG          SC   .75 INCH HAIL
05/03/03   SPARTANBURG                    SPOTTER REPORTS DIME SIZE
                                          HAIL COVERING YARD.

KRENTZ

Special weather statement, May 3, 5:58 PM EST, 2 minutes before

NCZ033>037-049-050-053>056-064-065-040000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
658 PM EDT SAT MAY 3 2003

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 221 CANCELLED FOR PARTS OF WESTERN
NORTH CAROLINA...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #221 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE
FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA:

AVERY...MITCHELL...YANCEY...CALDWELL...ALEXANDER...IREDELL...DAVIE...
BUNCOMBE...BURKE...CATAWBA...HENDERSON AND TRANSYLVANIA.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED AWAY FROM THE AREA.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE MEDIA FOR THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION.

BURRUS

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 38 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:01 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Anderson

When: May 3, 6:00 PM EST
Where: Anderson County, Williamston
Measured: 1.75 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 34.617, -82.483

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 South Carolina in 2003 Every state in 2003 This day in weather history Warnings in South Carolina, May 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: 5358323.