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 21, 1:57 PM EST, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 257 PM EDT FRI MAY 21 2004 .SHORT TERM... CONVECTION SLOWER TO BEGIN TODAY AND LESS COVERAGE THAN THE PAST TWO DAYS. MSAS/LAPS DATA SHOW MODERATE INSTABILITY WITH MOISTURE CONVERGENCE ACROSS THE CWFA...SO WILL LEAVE SCT EARLY EVE CONVECTION. SOMEWHAT STAGNANT PATTERN THE NEXT TWO DAYS. UPPER RIDGE MOVES EAST KEEPING DEEP SWLY FLOW OVER THE AREA. AXIS OF HIGH PW REMAINS OVER THE AREA AS DOES INSTABILITY. NO BIG CHANGES TO FCST. SCT AFT/EVE CONVECTION WITH TEMPS CLOSE TO 90. MAIN CHANGE IN THE SHORT TERM IS ON MONDAY. AXIS OF DRIER AIR WORKS IN WITH SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER PW. MUCH WARMER H7 TEMPS HELP LOWER INSTABILITY SIGNIFICANTLY AS WELL. OPS AND ENSEMBLE GUIDANCE HAVE THE LOWEST POP I/VE SEEN THIS WEEK FOR MONDAY. WILL LOWER POP TO 20 FOR NOW. TEMPS CONTINUE NEAR 90. .LONG TERM... TUE-FRI...OPERATIONAL MEDIUM RANGE MODELS REMAIN IN GOOD AGREEMENT IN BREAKING DOWN THE SOUTHEAST RIDGE THROUGH THE MIDDLE PART OF NEXT WEEK. THIS RESULTS IN A SOUTHWARD SAG OF THE QUASI-STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY...WHICH COULD MEANDER ITS WAY INTO THE CWFA AS EARLY AS WEDNESDAY. IN FACT...THE ECMWF AND GFS BOTH SEND THE BOUNDARY THROUGH THE REGION IN THE LATE WEDNESDAY/ WEDNESDAY NIGHT TIMEFRAME. HOWEVER...NCEP ENSEMBLE PROGS DEPICT A GREAT DEAL OF SPREAD AMONG THE VARIOUS MEMBER SOLUTIONS. FOR NOW...WILL INCREASE POPS FOR WEDNESDAY ABOUT 10 PERCENT ACROSS THE BOARD. THE FORECAST BECOMES INCREASINGLY UNCERTAIN FOR NEXT WEEK...AS MUCH WILL DEPEND UPON THE FATE OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY. FOR NOW...WILL CARRY SILENT 20S ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY...WITH NEAR-SEASONAL TEMPS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... GSP 69 90 67 89 / 20 30 20 30 AND 68 90 66 89 / 20 30 20 30 CLT 68 90 67 89 / 20 30 20 30 HKY 67 89 66 88 / 20 30 20 30 AVL 62 84 62 84 / 20 40 20 30 && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && RWH/JDL
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 452 AM EDT FRI MAY 21 2004 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-220900- 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- 452 AM EDT FRI MAY 21 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EVENING. A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. RB
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 409 PM EDT FRI MAY 21 2004 NCZ033-034-050-054-055-212104- AVERY NC-BURKE NC-CALDWELL NC-MCDOWELL NC-MITCHELL NC- 409 PM EDT FRI MAY 21 2004 A LARGE THUNDERSTORM HAS BEEN AFFECTING EASTERN AVERY COUNTY SINCE ABOUT 315 PM. RADAR AS ESTIMATED RAINFALL OF MORE THAN 2 INCHES IN A COUPLE OF AREAS ALONG THE BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY. ALSO...IT IS LIKELY THAT SOME HAIL WAS FALLING. A RECENT CHECK WITH A SPOTTER AND THE COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS CENTERS INDICATED NO UNUSUAL WEATHER...OTHER THAN PLENTY OF CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND RAINFALL. THIS STORM WAS EXPANDING...AND COULD BECOME SEVERE AT ANY TIME. SOME LOCAL FLOODING MAY OCCUR. THE STORM COULD AFFECT SMALL PARTS OF CALDWELL...BURKE...MITCHELL...AND MCDOWELL COUNTIES. JONES
The Greer radar (KGSP), 129 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:23 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Penny-sized hail accumulated to depths of 2 inches on highway 221, stopping traffic for a while.
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5403181.