Hail, Hyde
- When
- March 28, 8:55 AM EST
- Where
- Hyde County, Engelhard
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 36.067, -75.700
Several severe thunderstorms produced large hail across northeastern portions of the area during the morning hours of March 28th.
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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 episode as NWS MHX wrote it up.
Several severe thunderstorms produced large hail across northeastern portions of the area during the morning hours of March 28th.
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 Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 28, 3:30 AM EST, 5 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 330 AM EST MON MAR 28 2005 .SHORT TERM...LINE OF CONVECTION DVLPG FROM UPSTATE SC INTO ERN GA IS LIFTING NNE THIS MRNG AS WARM SECTOR BEGINS TO PUSH INTO RGN ALONG WITH GUD UPPER DIV AND H7 OMEGA. EXPECT THESE INGREDIENTS TO LIFT NORTH THROUGH THE CWA THIS MRNG. BOTH NAM AND GFS INDICATE STG LOW LVL JET THIS MRNG AS H8 WINDS VARY FROM 45 TO 55 KTS. SOME VEERING ALSO NOTED IN LOW LVLS. FEEL BIGGEST THREAT THIS MRNG IS LIKELY DAMAGING WINDS. WILL GO WITH CATEGORICAL POPS THIS MRNG TAPERING TO CHANCE BY EARLY AFTN AS BEST DYNAMICS LIFT NORTH. MODELS DO INDICATE SOME DRYING IN THE MID LVLS BY EARLY AFTN WHICH MAY ALLOW FOR PEAKS OF SUN AND BETTER BOUNDARY LAYER DESTABILIZATION. UPPER LOW OVER TN VLY IS SHOWN BY MODELS TO PUSH EAST TODAY WITH H5 TEMPS ARND -16C TO -20C BY LATE AFTN. ADD THIS TO BRIEF PERIOD OF LOW LVL WARMING AND MID LVL LAPSE RATES BECOME QUITE STEEP. MODELS INDICATE LESSENING OF LOW LVL WINDS THIS AFTN SO FEEL BIGGEST THREAT LATER TODAY WILL BE HAIL. PCPN CHANCES WILL BEGIN TO DECREASE THROUGH THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS AS LOW LVLS STABILIZE WITH PASSAGE OF COOL FRONT AND UPPER LOW MOVES EAST. WILL CARRY FOG TUE NIGHT AS TEMPS COOL EAST OF UPPER RIDGE AXIS AND WINDS DECREASE. UPPER RIDGE AXIS SLIDES EAST OVER RGN WED. && .LONG TERM...WILL NOT MAKE SIG CHANGES TO EXTENDED AS CURRENT FORECAST SHOWS WARMING TREND THURS AS UPPER RIDGE AXIS SLIDES TO THE EAST AND TROF DVLPS TO THE WEST. REINTRODUCE POPS FOR THUS NIGHT...FRI AND FRI NIGHT WITH APPROACH OF THIS TROF. ACCOMPANYING COLD FRONT COULD BE QUITE SIG FOR EARLY APRIL...BUT WILL NOT LOWE TEMPS BELOW GUIDANCE ATTM. WILL CONTINUE DRY FORECAST FOR SAT AND SUN. && .AVIATION...MOSTLY MVFR CEILINGS TO CONTINUE TODAY WITH OCCASIONAL IFR POSSIBLE IN HEAVIER SHOWERS AND SCT TSTMS. && .MARINE...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES FOR ALL WATERS IN EFFECT TODAY. SOUTHEAST FLOW WILL INCREASE TODAY AS STRONG SFC LOW MOVES TO THE WEST AND NORTH OF THE AREA. TONED DOWN THE GFS WINDS TO HOLD SPEEDS AT 30 KT FOR THE COASTAL WATERS THIS AFTN AND TONIGHT. SEAS WILL BUILD ACCORDINGLY...WITH HEIGHTS UP TO 10 FT FCST S OF HAT. WINDS/SEAS SUBSIDE TUE AS LOW AND ASSOC COLD FRONT PULL AWAY FROM THE AREA. HIGH PRESS WILL BUILD OVER THE AREA WED INTO THU. ANOTHER STRONG SYSTEM IS PROGGED TO APPROACH THE AREA ON FRI...WITH COASTAL CONDITIONS RETURNING TO SCA CRITERIA. && .MHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...NONE. MARINE...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY AMZ130-135-150-152-154-156-158. && MLF/RAP
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 405 AM EST MON MAR 28 2005 NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>095-098-103-104-290905- BEAUFORT NC-CARTERET NC-CRAVEN NC-DUPLIN NC-GREENE NC-JONES NC- LENOIR NC-MAINLAND DARE NC-MAINLAND HYDE NC-MARTIN NC-ONSLOW NC- OUTER BANKS DARE NC-OUTER BANKS HYDE NC-PAMLICO NC-PITT NC- TYRRELL NC-WASHINGTON NC- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ATLANTIC BEACH...BAYBORO...BEAUFORT... BELHAVEN...BEULAVILLE...BUXTON...CEDAR ISLAND...COLUMBIA...DUCK... EMERALD ISLE...ENGELHARD...FRISCO...GREENVILLE...HARKERS ISLAND... HATTERAS VILLAGE...HAVELOCK...JACKSONVILLE...KENANSVILLE... KILL DEVIL HILLS...KINSTON...KITTY HAWK...LA GRANGE...MANNS HARBOR... MANTEO...MOREHEAD CITY...NAGS HEAD...NEW BERN... NORTH TOPSAIL BEACH...OCRACOKE...ORIENTAL...PLYMOUTH...SNOW HILL... SWANQUARTER...SWANSBORO...TRENTON...WALLACE...WARSAW... WASHINGTON AND WILLIAMSTON 405 AM EST MON MAR 28 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TODAY ACROSS THE REGION AS A WARM FRONT LIFTS NORTH OF THE AREA. WINDS IN THE LOWER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE SUPPORTIVE AND GUSTS TO MORE THAN 60 MPH. THESE WINDS WILL ALSO BE FAVORABLE FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES BUT THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS. LATER TODAY ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS IS POSSIBLE AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE SWINGS THROUGH THE REGION. COLD TEMPERATURES ALOFT LATE THIS AFTERNOON WILL MAKE HAIL THE PRIMARY THREAT. BY LATE IN THE DAY HAIL TO NEAR 1 INCH IN DIAMETER IS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE REGION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY. MLF
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 629 AM EST MON MAR 28 2005 NCZ079-090>092-098-281230- DUPLIN-JONES-LENOIR-GREENE-ONSLOW- 629 AM EST MON MAR 28 2005 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT ONSLOW...GREENE...LENOIR...JONES AND DUPLIN COUNTIES UNTIL 730 AM EST... AT 629 AM EST...THERE WERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 60 MILES WEST OF WARSAW TO 58 MILES SOUTH OF WALLACE...OR FROM RED SPRINGS TO 6 MILES WEST OF LONG BEACH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR WALLACE AT 655 AM EST...WARSAW AT 700 AM EST...KENANSVILLE AT 705 AM EST...BEULAVILLE AT 710 AM EST...POTTERS HILL AT 715 AM EST...PLEASANT HILL AT 720 AM EST. OTHER LOCATIONS TO BE AFFECTED BY THE STORMS INCLUDE KINSTON...LA GRANGE AND SNOW HILL. WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND LOCALIZED FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS. MOTORISTS SHOULD SLOW DOWN ON AREA ROADWAYS TO AVOID HYDROPLANING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THE WEATHER SITUATION ACROSS THE AREA. 8
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</html>SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 832 AM EST MON MAR 28 2005 NCZ045>047-080-081-093>095-103-104-281430- TYRRELL-OUTER BANKS DARE-MAINLAND DARE-BEAUFORT-PAMLICO-CRAVEN-MAINLAND HYDE-WASHINGTON-OUTER BANKS HYDE-CARTERET- 832 AM EST MON MAR 28 2005 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CARTERET...HYDE...CRAVEN... PAMLICO...BEAUFORT...DARE...TYRRELL AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES UNTIL 930 AM EST... AT 832 AM EST...THERE WERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 13 MILES NORTH OF BELHAVEN TO 26 MILES SOUTH OF EMERALD ISLE...OR FROM 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PLYMOUTH TO 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NORTH TOPSAIL BEACH... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR VANDEMERE AT 840 AM EST...WHORTONSVILLE AT 845 AM EST...ROSE BAY AT 850 AM EST...GUM NECK AT 855 AM EST...STACY AT 900 AM EST...LAKE LANDING AT 905 AM EST. OTHER LOCATIONS TO BE AFFECTED BY THE STORMS INCLUDE ATLANTIC BEACH...BAYBORO...BEAUFORT...BUXTON...CEDAR ISLAND...ENGELHARD...FRISCO...HARKERS ISLAND...HATTERAS VILLAGE... HAVELOCK...MOREHEAD CITY...OCRACOKE...ORIENTAL AND SWANQUARTER. WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND LOCALIZED FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS. MOTORISTS SHOULD SLOW DOWN ON AREA ROADWAYS TO AVOID HYDROPLANING. THIS STORM IS PRODUCING AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THE WEATHER SITUATION ACROSS THE AREA. 11
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 155 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:54 UTC.
3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, March 2005
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: 5444856, 5442576, 5442577.