Hail, Hart
- When
- May 10, 2:30 PM EST
- Where
- Hart County, Hartwell
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- POST OFFICE
- Coordinates
- 34.350, -82.933
Hail in Georgia, May 10, 2005
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 May 10, 2:00 PM EST, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 10, 2:00 PM EST, 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 300 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2005 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY)... COVERAGE OF DEEP CONVECTION WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE THRU LATE DAY ALONG AND AHEAD OF EASTWARD WOBBLING MID-LVL S/WV...CURRENTLY SPINNING TOWARD NE GA. POCKETS OF MODERATE INSTABILITY COMBINED WITH JUST WITH ENUF SHEAR...ESPECIALLY IN THE PIEDMONT...TO SUPPORT SOME MULTI-CELL CLUSTERS INTO THE EARLY EVENING. ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL CONTINUE AS WELL WITH PRIMARY THREAT BEING LARGE HAIL THANKS TO LOW WET BULB ZERO HEIGHTS. GIVEN THE COMBINATION OF WEAKENING DEEP LAYER FORCING AND BLYR STABILIZATION THANKS TO LOSS OF HEATING...CVRG EXPECTED TO WANE SLOWLY DURING THE EVENING HOURS. ON WEDNESDAY...IT CONTINUES TO LOOK LIKE WE WILL BE UNDER MEAN NORTHERLY FLOW THROUGH A DEEP LAYER BETWEEN BUILDING UPPER RIDGE TO OUR WEST AND UPPER LOW ALONG COAST. SOME DEGREE OF LLVL EASTERLY FLOW DEVELOPS WITHIN WEAKLY FORCED ATMOSPHERE...SO COULD BE DIURNAL FOCUS OF TSTMS NEAR THE HIGHER TERRAIN OR PERHAPS EAST OF THE CWFA WHERE BETTER LLVL CONVERGENCE LOOKS TO SET UP. AT ANY RATE...A SHOTGUN SLIGHT CHANCE FOR DIURNAL STORMS FOR ALL AREAS WILL CONTINUE. STRENGTHENING UPPER RIDGE TO BUILD OVER THE CWFA THURSDAY...LEADING TO WHAT LOOKS LIKE A PRETTY SUPPRESSED ATMOSPHERE...BUT NAM/GFS IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH ORIENTATION AND MAGNITUDE OF E-W ORIENTED INSTABILITY AXIS ACRS NC...SO A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR AFT/EVE STORMS WILL BE PLACED IN THIS AREA. TRICKY FCST SETTING UP FOR THU NITE/FRIDAY AS UPPER RIDGE LINGERS BUT A BACKDOOR FRONT APRCHS. THIS BNDRY COULD BE THE FOCUS FOR DEEP CONVECTION...PROBABLY JUST DURING THE DAYTIME HOURS ON FRIDAY...AND HOW MUCH COOLER AIR WORKS INTO CENTRAL/WESTERN NC BEHIND FRIDAY LEAVES MAXES QUESTIONABLE AS WELL. && .LONG TERM (FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY)... HAVE CLOSELY FOLLOWED HPC SCENARIO OF ECMWF THROUGH THE MEDIUM RANGE. THIS SCENARIO WILL BRING A SURFACE FRONT IN FROM THE WEST ON SUNDAY THAT WILL LAY DOWN ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA ON MONDAY. AS A RESULT...A THREAT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST THROUGHOUT THE MEDIUM RANGE PERIOD...PARTICULARLY SUNDAY AND MONDAY. WILL LIMIT POP TO CHANCE AT THIS POINT. TEMPS WILL FOLLOW HPC GUIDANCE. && .AVIATION... PASSAGE OF UPPER LOW AND COLD AIR ALOFT WILL KEEP MODERATE INSTABILITY ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS INTO THE EARLY EVENING. EXPECT MOST TAF SITES TO EVENTUALLY HAVE A BRUSH WITH THUNDERSTORMS...MOST LIKELY AT KAVL THROUGH THE MID AFTERNOON AND KCLT DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON. WILL AMEND TAFS AS CONVECTIVE TRENDS DICTATE. APART FROM CONVECTIVE STORMS...CLOUDS SHOULD REMAIN VFR. CONVECTION SHOULD WANE IN THE MID TO LATE EVENING LEAVING A GREAT DEAL OF CONVECTIVE DEBRIS OVERNIGHT. NEXT SET OF TAFS WILL MOST LIKELY DEAL WITH FOG AT LOCATIONS THAT EXPERIENCE PRECIP. AFTER THE FOG BURNS OFF...MAINLY CIRRUS WITH A LIGHT NE FLOW IN THE MORNING. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SHORT TERM...CSH LONG TERM...PM AVIATION...PM
Hazardous weather outlook, May 10, 6:14 AM EST, 8 hours 16 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 714 AM EDT TUE MAY 10 2005 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082- SCZ001>014-019-111115- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-CALDWELL- ALEXANDER-IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD- BUNCOMBE-MCDOWELL-BURKE-CATAWBA-ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON- MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON-POLK-RUTHERFORD- CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION- OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS- GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG- CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 714 AM EDT TUE MAY 10 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA...UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA TODAY...MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON. ONE OR TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND PERHAPS A DAMAGING WIND GUST OR TWO BEING THE PRIMARY THREATS. IN ADDITION...STORMS DEVELOPING TODAY WILL MOVE VERY SLOWLY... RESULTING IN LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND POSSIBLY ISOLATED FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY ISOLATED TO SCATTERED...MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FOR MUCH OF THE PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED. LANE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 10, 10:23 AM EST, 4 hours 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1123 AM EDT TUE MAY 10 2005 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-102200- ABBEVILLE-ALEXANDER-ANDERSON-AVERY-BUNCOMBE-BURKE NC-CABARRUS- CALDWELL-CATAWBA-CHEROKEE SC-CHESTER-CLEVELAND-DAVIE-ELBERT- FRANKLIN GA-GASTON-GRAHAM-GREATER GREENVILLE-GREATER OCONEE- GREATER PICKENS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-GREENWOOD-HABERSHAM-HART- HAYWOOD-HENDERSON-IREDELL-LAURENS SC-LINCOLN NC-MACON NC-MADISON NC- MCDOWELL-MECKLENBURG-MITCHELL NC-NORTHERN JACKSON NC- OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-POLK NC-RABUN-ROWAN-RUTHERFORD- SOUTHERN JACKSON NC-SPARTANBURG-STEPHENS-SWAIN-TRANSYLVANIA-UNION NC- UNION SC-YANCEY-YORK- 1123 AM EDT TUE MAY 10 2005 ...SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK... AN UPPER LEVEL AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL BE MOVING EAST ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON...AND WILL TRIGGER SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS. IN ADDITION...AS THE ATMOSPHERE BECOMES INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE... THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO GROW TO A SUFFICIENT HEIGHT TO PROMOTE HAIL DEVELOPMENT. THANKS TO RATHER COOL TEMPERATURES IN THE MIDDLE LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE...A FEW STORMS COULD PRODUCE HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES TO QUARTERS. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THROUGHOUT THE DAY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA SOURCE...FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, May 10, 12:45 PM EST, 1 hour 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 145 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2005 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082- SCZ001>014-019-102115- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-CALDWELL- ALEXANDER-IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD- BUNCOMBE-MCDOWELL-BURKE-CATAWBA-ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON- MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON-POLK-RUTHERFORD- CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION- OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS- GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG- CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CLAYTON...CLARKESVILLE...TOCCOA... HARTWELL...ELBERTON...NEWLAND...STATESVILLE...MOCKSVILLE... SPRUCE PINE...CHEROKEE...WAYNESVILLE...ASHEVILLE...MARION... MORGANTON...HICKORY...SALISBURY...SYLVA...FRANKLIN...BREVARD... HENDERSONVILLE...COLUMBUS...RUTHERFORDTON...SHELBY...LINCOLNTON... GASTONIA...CHARLOTTE...CONCORD...MONROE...GREENVILLE... SPARTANBURG...GAFFNEY...ROCK HILL...ANDERSON...ABBEVILLE... LAURENS...UNION...CHESTER...GREENWOOD 145 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2005 ...STRONG STORMS TO AFFECT THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON... AN UPPER LEVEL STORM WILL SLOWLY CROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND PRODUCE FAIRLY STRONG SCATTERED TO WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SIGNIFICANT STORM ACTIVITY IS CURRENTLY OCCURING ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL...STRONG WINDS...AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL. RAINFALL RATES ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS HAVE RANGED BETWEEN A FEW TENTHS OF AN INCH TO AROUND ONE AND HALF INCHES PER HOUR WITH THE HEAVIER STORMS. AREAS OF LOCALIZED FLOODING COULD OCCUR ESPECIALLY ALONG LOW LYING AREAS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. STORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE UPSTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA BY MID AFTERNOON...AS WELL AS THE FOOTHILLS AND PEIDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA. THE BIGGEST THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE THE POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. HOWEVER...RAINFALL RATES WITH THESE SLOW MOVING STORMS WILL BE HIGH ENOUGH TO PRODUCE URBAN FLOODING AND SIGNIFICANTLY LIMIT VISIBILITIES WHILE DRIVING. KRENTZ
Local storm report, May 10, 1:04 PM EST, 1 hour 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
204 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1245 PM HAIL 4 E FRANKLIN 35.18N 83.31W
05/10/2005 0.88 INCH MACON NC PUBLIC
NICKEL SIZE HAIL AT CULLASAJA COUNTRY STORE ON HWY 64.
0150 PM HAIL 1 S TOCCOA 34.57N 83.32W
05/10/2005 0.75 INCH STEPHENS GA TRAINED SPOTTER
3/4 INCH HAIL NEAR TOCCOA ON HWY 17 NEAR JUNCTION 123.
0203 PM HAIL 3 E TOCCOA 34.58N 83.27W
05/10/2005 1.00 INCH STEPHENS GA TRAINED SPOTTER
DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL ON 123 EAST OF TOCCOA.
&&
TJBLocal storm report, May 10, 1:22 PM EST, 1 hour 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
222 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0220 PM HAIL 2 E UNION 34.72N 81.59W
05/10/2005 1.75 INCH UNION SC EMERGENCY MNGR
PENNY TO GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AT MONARCH MILLS EAST OF
UNION.
&&
TJBThe radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 88 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:30 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 10, 2005
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, May 10 to 11, 2005
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, May 10, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New Mexico, May 10, 2005
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, May 10, 2005
- Flash Flooding and Hail in South Carolina, May 10, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 10, 2005
- Hail in Colorado, May 10, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 10, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Georgia, May 10, 2005
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, May 10, 2005
- Lightning Strike in Ohio, May 10, 2005
More
Every storm in Georgia in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, May 2005
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: 5453635.