Hail, Pamlico
- When
- May 12, 5:20 PM EST
- Where
- Pamlico County, Oriental
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 35.033, -76.700
Hail in North Carolina, May 12, 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 Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 12, 2:08 PM EST, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 12, 2:08 PM EST, 3 hours 12 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 308 PM EDT THU MAY 12 2005 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT)... THUNDERSTORMS FIRING OVER SW VA AT THIS TIME. THIS MESHES BOTH WITH THE NAM AND GFS. BOTH BRING THIS CENTER OF OMEGA SE AND OVER THE CWA TONIGHT. WILL GO HIGH CHC POPS AS THIS DROPS SE. ONLY CONCERN IS HOW WELL THE STORMS CAN HANG TOGETHER AFTER SUNSET WHEN THEY MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. THIS WILL ALSO HELP DEVELOP CLOUDS TO AS THE NE FLOW INTENSIFIES AND INCREASES LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. LINGERING LOW LEVEL MOISTURE ON MODELS FOR FRIDAY KEEP CLDS ARND AND A SLIGHT CHC OF SOME LIGHT SHWRS ON FRI. BY FRI NIGHT AND SAT HAVE MORE DRYING ALOFT. THE WARM FRONT SETS UP N OF THE AREA AND THIS MOVES AWAY FROM THE AREA AND SHD STAY DRY UNTIL SUN. NEXT SUN A COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE W AND MOVES INTO THE AREA ON BOTH THE GFS AND NAM AROUND SUNSET. BOTH MODELS SHOW DECENT LIFT WITH SOME INSTABILITY SO WENT WITH CHC POPS. && .LONG TERM (MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY)... FRONT SLOWLY MOVES OFF THE COAST MONDAY SO A FEW LINGERING SHWRS THEN DRY UNTIL THU WHEN A FRONT SETS UP TO THE NW AND COULD HAVE SOME STORMS MOVG SE TOWARD THE AREA. && .AVIATION... MAINLY VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS. WIDELY SCTD SHRA/TSTMS EXPECTED TO APPROACH SOUTHERN TAF SITES. MVFR CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE NEAR SITES. TWEB SCTD TSTMS ON ROUTE FROM 21 TO 02Z. && .MARINE... WINDS TURN NE TONIGHT AND INCREASE TO 15 KTS BUT COME DOWN BY SAT AND TURN SW. && .MHX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...NONE. MARINE...NONE. && SHORT TERM...JAB LONG TERM...JAB AVIATION...PH MARINE...JAB
Hazardous weather outlook, May 12, 1:44 AM EST, 15 hours 36 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 244 AM EDT THU MAY 12 2005 AMZ130-135-150-152-154-156-158-NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>095-098- 103-104-130645- ALBEMARLE SOUND-PAMLICO SOUND- S OF CURRITUCK BEACH LIGHT TO OREGON INLET NC OUT 20 NM- S OF OREGON INLET TO CAPE HATTERAS NC OUT 20 NM- S OF CAPE HATTERAS TO OCRACOKE INLET NC OUT 20 NM INCLUDING THE MONITOR NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY- S OF OCRACOKE INLET TO CAPE LOOKOUT NC OUT 20 NM- S OF CAPE LOOKOUT TO N OF SURF CITY NC OUT 20 NM-MARTIN-PITT- WASHINGTON-TYRRELL-MAINLAND DARE-GREENE-BEAUFORT-MAINLAND HYDE- DUPLIN-LENOIR-JONES-CRAVEN-PAMLICO-CARTERET-ONSLOW- OUTER BANKS DARE-OUTER BANKS HYDE- 244 AM EDT THU MAY 12 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A NORTHEAST FLOW WILL DEVELOP BEHIND A COLD FRONT DROPPING THROUGH THE AREA TODAY. THE RESULTING LONG PERIOD SWELL WILL CAUSE A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS NORTH OF OCRACOKE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The radar
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 33 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:19 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 in Texas, May 12, 2005
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 12, 2005
- Flood in Nebraska, May 12 to 15, 2005
- High Wind in Iowa, May 12, 2005
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, May 12 to 13, 2005
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Kansas, May 12 to 13, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 12 to 13, 2005
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Kansas, May 12 to 13, 2005
- Flood and Hail in Kansas, May 12 to 13, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, May 12, 2005
- Heavy Snow in Montana, May 12, 2005
- Flash Flood in Nebraska, May 12, 2005
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, 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: 5451879.