1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
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 19, 2:06 PM EST, 2 hours 49 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 306 PM EDT WED MAY 19 2004 .SHORT TERM... LAPS/MSAS DATA SHOW MODERATE INSTABILITY/MOISTURE CONVERGENCE ACROSS THE AREA OUTSIDE OF THE MTNS. EXPECT TSRA COVERAGE TO INCREASE THE NEXT HOUR OR SO AS CONVECTION FIRING ACROSS THE MTNS MOVES EAST OFF THE ESCARPMENT. WILL KEEP LIKELY EVENING POP CWFA WIDE. STILL EXPECTING ISOLATED SVR...ESP NRN TIER WHERE SHEAR/ORGANIZATION WILL BE BETTER. MDLS HINTING AT MCS DEVELOPMENT OVERNIGHT MOVING SE TOWARD OUR NW PIEDMONT. WILL LEAVE OUT FOR NOW...BUT EVENING SHIFT WILL HAVE TO WATCH THIS FOR POSSIBLE UPDATES. FOR THU MDLS KEEP AXIS OF HIGHER MOISTURE...ALTHOUGH MAGNITUDE LESS THAN THE PAST FEW DAYS...ACROSS THE CWFA. UPPER RIDGING BUILDING OVER THE AREA WILL HELP LIMIT CONVECTIVE COVERAGE. BUT DECENT INSTABILITY COMBINED WITH LEE TROF WILL LEAD TO SCT AFT/EVE CONVECTION. CENTER OF UPPER RIDGE CONTINUES TO MOVE OVER THE AREA FRI. HOWEVER GFS AND ETA SHOW GOOD INSTABILITY AND THETA-E RIDGE OVER THE CWFA. ETA HAS MUCH LOWER LAYER RH WITH LITTLE POP WHILE GFS HAS MORE WITH CHC POP. WILL LEAVE CHC POP IN GIVEN THE INSTABILITY AND CONTINUED LEE TROF. RIDGE MOVES E SAT WITH BOTH MDLS SHOWING A RETURN OF DEEP LAYER RH. INSTABILITY AND LEE TROF CONTINUES AS DOES CHC POP. WARMING TREND THRU THE PERIOD AS THICKNESSES RISE AND LESS LAYER RH LEADS TO LESS IN THE WAY OF CLOUDS. .LONG TERM... MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION EXPECTED FOR THE MEDIUM RANGE...WITH SLIGHTLY BETTER CHANCES CWFA-WIDE WITH APPROACH OF A BACK DOOR COLD FRONT FOR EARLY NEXT WEEK. IN THE MEANTIME...TEMPERATURES WILL BE IN A WARMING TREND...WITH SOME MAXES REACHING LOWER 90S IN THE GRIDS...AND TEMPERATURES REMAINING IN THE 60S AT NIGHT FOR THE MOST PART. WEDNESDAY...SURFACE FRONT RETREATS...ALLOWING CONVECTIVE CHANCES TO BE HELD TO JUST THE HIGHER TERRAIN...WITH A SLIGHT COOLDOWN CWFA-WIDE. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... GSP 64 86 65 88 / 30 30 30 30 AND 64 86 65 89 / 30 30 30 30 CLT 64 86 65 89 / 30 30 30 30 HKY 64 85 65 87 / 40 30 30 30 AVL 60 81 60 84 / 30 40 40 40 && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && RWH/SAB
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 607 AM EDT WED MAY 19 2004 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-200958- ABBEVILLE SC-ALEXANDER NC-ANDERSON SC-AVERY NC-BUNCOMBE NC-BURKE NC- CABARRUS NC-CALDWELL NC-CATAWBA NC-CHEROKEE SC-CHESTER SC- CLEVELAND NC-DAVIE NC-ELBERT GA-FRANKLIN GA-GASTON NC-GRAHAM NC- GREATER GREENVILLE SC-GREATER OCONEE SC-GREATER PICKENS SC- GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS SC-GREENWOOD SC-HABERSHAM GA-HART GA-HAYWOOD NC- HENDERSON NC-IREDELL NC-LAURENS SC-LINCOLN NC-MACON NC-MADISON NC- MCDOWELL NC-MECKLENBURG NC-MITCHELL NC-NORTHERN JACKSON NC- OCONEE MOUNTAINS SC-PICKENS MOUNTAINS SC-POLK NC-RABUN GA-ROWAN NC- RUTHERFORD NC-SOUTHERN JACKSON NC-SPARTANBURG SC-STEPHENS GA- SWAIN NC-TRANSYLVANIA NC-UNION SC-UNION NC-YANCEY NC-YORK SC- 607 AM EDT WED MAY 19 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE REGION AGAIN TODAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE SLOW MOVING...AND A FEW AREAS WILL SEE IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES OF RAIN TODAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE A LITTLE MORE ORGANIZED TODAY THAN THEY HAVE BEEN EARLIER IN THE WEEK. WHILE A SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK /CAESPSGSP/ HAS NOT YET BEEN ISSUED FOR TODAY...IF THERE IS MORE SUNSHINE THAN CURRENTLY EXPECTED...A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN DEVELOP OVER THE REGION THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL NOT AS WIDESPREAD ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AS THEY WILL BE TODAY. HOWEVER...THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE A LITTLE MORE CONDUSIVE TO PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...AND AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OR TWO WILL BE POSSIBLE ON EITHER DAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CONFINED TO THE MOUNTAINS SATURDAY...SUNDAY AND MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... A FEW SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON. MCAVOY
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 448 PM EDT WED MAY 19 2004 NCZ054-192117- MCDOWELL- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...MARION 448 PM EDT WED MAY 19 2004 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR MARION... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL AND GUSTY WIND WILL CONTINUE MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH...ACROSS I-40 AND THROUGH SOUTHERN MCDOWELL COUNTY THROUGH 530 PM. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD ALSO BE PREPARED FOR FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. CSH
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
503 PM EDT WED MAY 19 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0448 PM TSTM WND DMG MARION 35.68N 82.01W
05/19/2004 MCDOWELL NC COUNTY OFFICIAL
TREES DOWN IN THE CITY OF MARION.
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SBKPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
515 PM EDT WED MAY 19 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0501 PM HAIL 5 SW MARION 35.63N 82.07W
05/19/2004 0.75 INCH MCDOWELL NC TRAINED SPOTTER
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LANEThe Greer radar (KGSP), 113 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:53 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail fell near Altapass, just inside the McDowell County border, and destroyed an entire apple crop.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, May 2004
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: 5403180.