Hail, Pickens
- When
- March 30, 9:35 PM EST
- Where
- Pickens County, Liberty
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 34.783, -82.683
Hail in South Carolina, March 30, 2004
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 Mar 30, 9:05 PM EST, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 9:05 PM EST, 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED FIRST PERIOD POP NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 905 PM EST TUE MAR 30 2004 .UPDATE... COMPLEX PATTER TO DEAL WITH TONIGHT. WEDGE OVER ALL BUT S AND W OF AREA...WITH WARM/MOIST AIR SAVANNAH RIVER VALLEY. COLD FRONT MOVING VERY SLOWLY INTO FAR W. WITH FROPA TO BE LATE...INCREASED CLOUD COVER. WILL RAISE POPS AHEAD OF CONVECTIVE LINE FORMING UPPER SAVANNAH RIVER VALEY. BETTER INSTABILITY E LATER. RAISED MINIMUM TERMPERATURES UPPER SAVANANNAH RIVER VALLEY WHERE MOISTURE GREATEST. WITH WIND RATHER WEAK...THINK SCOURING OF CLOUDS AND MOISTURE WILL BE DIFFICULT. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... GSP 45 58 40 61 / 90 40 10 10 AND 46 59 40 61 / 90 40 10 10 CLT 43 59 40 61 / 80 40 10 10 HKY 42 55 39 58 / 70 50 20 10 AVL 41 53 37 54 / 90 40 20 20 .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && 07 JAT
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 30, 5:40 AM EST, 15 hours 55 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 540 AM EST TUE MAR 30 2004 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-301240- 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- 540 AM EST TUE MAR 30 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. DEO
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 44 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:34 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
- Winter Weather in North Carolina, March 30, 2004
- Lightning Strikes in Illinois, March 30, 2004
- Winter Weather in South Carolina, March 30, 2004
- Winter Weather in North Carolina, March 30, 2004
- Hail in Mississippi, March 30, 2004
- Hail in Alabama, March 30, 2004
- Hail in Indiana, March 30, 2004
- Hail in Alabama, March 30, 2004
- Hail in Alabama, March 30, 2004
- Blizzard in Alaska, March 30, 2004
- Dust Storm in Oregon, March 30, 2004
- Hail in Kentucky, March 30, 2004
More
Every storm in South Carolina in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in South Carolina, March 2004
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5388924.