Hail, Elbert
- When
- April 21, 6:03 AM EST
- Where
- Elbert County, 4 mi N of Elberton
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 34.167, -82.867
Hail in Georgia, April 21, 2006
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 Apr 21, 1:40 AM EST, 4 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 21, 1:40 AM EST, 4 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 240 AM EDT FRI APR 21 2006 .SHORT TERM /TODAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT/... UPPER LOW MOVG OVER GREAT LAKES WILL KEEP THE WAVE TRAIN GOING ACROSS THE AREA WITH CONTINUED MOIST SW FLOW. TIMING OF THESE INDIVIDUAL SHORTWAVES HAS NOT BEEN HANDLED WELL BY THE MODELS RECENTLY. THERE ARE ALSO TIMING/ORIENTATION DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE NAM AND GFS. IN ANY CASE...GULF MOISTURE IS FLOWING INTO THE REGION AND THE CHANCE OF RAIN IS MUCH IMPROVED COMPARED TO RECENT WEEKS...TODAY WILL BE NO EXCEPTION. THETA-E RIDGE INCREASES OVER MTNS EARLY AND WILL CONTINUE WITH CAT POPS THERE THROUGH MID DAY...WITH AT LEAST LIKELY SHWRS/TSTMS ACROSS CWA THIS AFTN THRU TONIGHT. BOTH NAM AND GFS SHOW UPPER TROF AXIS ROTATING THROUGH AREA EARLY SAT AND THIS WILL LIKELY BRING A GOOD ROUND OF CONVECTION LATE FRI NIGHT THROUGH SAT MORNING. LATEST MODEL RUNS SLOWER MOVG UPPER LOW E AND CONVECTION COULD CONTINUE THRU THE DAY AND INTO THE EVE. LOOKING FOR ABV AVG TEMPS TODAY...NEAR AVG SAT. && .LONG TERM /SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/... UPPER TROF CONTINUES E ACROSS GREAT LAKES SUN WHILE SURFACE HIGH BUILDS INTO AREE FROM THE W. EXPECT A DRYING AND WARMING TREND SUN AND MON...WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS RETURNING LATE TUE AND WED. COOL HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FROM THE N ON THU. NO SIG CHANGES MADE TO GRIDDED FORECAST AFTER SAT NIGHT. && .AVIATION... LEFTOVER SHRA AND OUTFLOW WILL CONTINUE TO DISSIPATE OVER THE UPSTATE EARLY THIS MORNING. CONDITIONS SHOULD PRIMARILY REMAIN VFR WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SOME TEMPORARY MVFR FOG POSSIBLE AROUND SUNRISE...ESPECIALLY KAND AND KAVL. SHORT RANGE MODELS INDICATE THAT THE NEXT ROUND OF CONVECTION OVER CENTRAL TN AND KY SHOULD BEGIN TO MOVE EAST BETWEEN 15-18Z. THE STEERING FLOW SHOULD RESULT IN STORM MOTIONS FROM SW TO NE...RESULTING IN SLOW PROGRESS EAST. BEST CHC APPEARS TO OCCUR LATE THIS AFTERNOON...HOWEVER...CHCS ARE TOO SMALL TO MENTION IN THE TAFS. THE NEXT CHC MAY OCCUR LATE FRI NIGHT AS SHARP MID TROF MOVES OVER THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SHORT TERM...RB LONG TERM...RB AVIATION...NED
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 21, 2:31 AM EST, 3 hours 32 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 331 AM EDT FRI APR 21 2006 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082- SCZ001>014-019-220745- 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 NC- OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS- GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG- CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER- GREENWOOD- 331 AM EDT FRI APR 21 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT LOOK FOR THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT. SOME STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...THE MAIN THREAT BEING LARGE HAIL AND WIND. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA SATURDAY INTO SATURDAY EVENING. THERE IS ANOTHER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. SOME STORMS COULD BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 21, 4:04 AM EST, 1 hour 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 504 AM EDT FRI APR 21 2006 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-212100- 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- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ABBEVILLE...ANDERSON...ASHEVILLE... BREVARD...CHARLOTTE...CHEROKEE...CHESTER...CLARKESVILLE...CLAYTON... CONCORD...ELBERTON...FRANKLIN...GAFFNEY...GASTONIA...GREENVILLE... GREENWOOD...HARTWELL...HENDERSONVILLE...HICKORY...LAURENS... LINCOLNTON...MARION...MOCKSVILLE...MONROE...MORGANTON...NEWLAND... ROCK HILL...RUTHERFORDTON...SALISBURY...SHELBY...SPARTANBURG... SPRUCE PINE...STATESVILLE...SYLVA...TOCCOA...TRYON...UNION... WAYNESVILLE 504 AM EDT FRI APR 21 2006 ...SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK... AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHING THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA WILL INTERACT WITH THE WARM...HUMID AIR... RESULTING IN PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION TODAY...TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. THE GREATEST THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IS OVER THE MOUNTAINS...BUT ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. RB
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 99 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:04 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
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, April 21, 2006
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, April 21, 2006
- Hail in Mississippi, April 21, 2006
- Tornado in Mississippi, April 21, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, April 21, 2006
- Lightning Strike in Mississippi, April 21, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, April 21, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, April 21, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, April 21, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, April 21, 2006
- Flash Flooding and Hail in California, April 21, 2006
- Flash Flooding in Puerto Rico, April 21, 2006
More
Every storm in Georgia in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, April 2006
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: 5502702.