Hail, Iredell
- When
- May 18, 1:52 PM EST
- Where
- Iredell County, Mooresville
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 35.583, -80.817
Dime size or larger hail reported on McClelland Ave.
Hail in North Carolina, May 18, 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 May 18, 9:59 AM EST, 3 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 18, 9:59 AM EST, 3 hours 53 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 18, 5:19 AM EST, 8 hours 33 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 619 AM EDT THU MAY 18 2006 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-191030- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-ALEXANDER- IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE- CATAWBA-ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON- TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG- CABARRUS-UNION NC-CALDWELL MOUNTAINS-GREATER CALDWELL- BURKE MOUNTAINS-GREATER BURKE-MCDOWELL MOUNTAINS-EASTERN MCDOWELL- RUTHERFORD MOUNTAINS-GREATER RUTHERFORD-POLK MOUNTAINS- EASTERN POLK-OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS- GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS- GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE- LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 619 AM EDT THU MAY 18 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 WINDY WEST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH SUSTAINED WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON THEN DIMINISHING TONIGHT. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY BREEZY NORTHWEST WIND OF 10 TO 20 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ON FRIDAY WITH SOME GUSTS OVER 30 MPH. THERE IS ALSO SOME POTENTIAL FOR STRONG STORMS OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND THE WESTERN UPSTATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. DEO
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 18, 10:20 AM EST, 3 hours 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1120 AM EDT THU MAY 18 2006 NCZ035>037-056-057-068>072-082-502-504-506-508-510-SCZ008-009-013- 014-181730- ALEXANDER-IREDELL-DAVIE-CATAWBA-ROWAN-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON- MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION NC-GREATER CALDWELL-GREATER BURKE- EASTERN MCDOWELL-GREATER RUTHERFORD-EASTERN POLK-CHEROKEE-YORK- UNION SC-CHESTER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...STATESVILLE...MOCKSVILLE...HICKORY... SALISBURY...SHELBY...LINCOLNTON...GASTONIA...CHARLOTTE... CONCORD...MONROE...LENOIR...MORGANTON...MARION...RUTHERFORD... COLUMBUS...GAFFNEY...ROCK HILL...UNION...CHESTER 1120 AM EDT THU MAY 18 2006 ...SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON. AS THESE STORMS SHIFT INTO THE NORTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT...SOME OF THEM COULD BECOME SEVERE...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 40...AND EAST TOWARD CHARLOTTE TO JUST NORTH AND WEST OF MONROE. THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN OKLAHOMA HAS HIGHLIGHTED THIS AREA AS BEING IN A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT TODAY IS LARGE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS. EVEN THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO NOT BECOME SEVERE COULD PRODUCE LARGE QUANTITIES OF SMALL HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION OR CABLE TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. 44
Special weather statement, May 18, 10:22 AM EST, 3 hours 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1122 AM EDT THU MAY 18 2006 NCZ035>037-056-057-068>072-082-502-504-506-508-510-SCZ008-009-013- 014-182300- ALEXANDER-IREDELL-DAVIE-CATAWBA-ROWAN-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON- MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION NC-GREATER CALDWELL-GREATER BURKE- EASTERN MCDOWELL-GREATER RUTHERFORD-EASTERN POLK-CHEROKEE-YORK- UNION SC-CHESTER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...STATESVILLE...MOCKSVILLE...HICKORY... SALISBURY...SHELBY...LINCOLNTON...GASTONIA...CHARLOTTE... CONCORD...MONROE...LENOIR...MORGANTON...MARION...RUTHERFORD... COLUMBUS...GAFFNEY...ROCK HILL...UNION...CHESTER 1122 AM EDT THU MAY 18 2006 ...SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON. AS THESE STORMS SHIFT INTO THE NORTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT...SOME OF THEM COULD BECOME SEVERE...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 40...AND EAST TOWARD CHARLOTTE TO JUST NORTH AND WEST OF MONROE. THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN OKLAHOMA HAS HIGHLIGHTED THIS AREA AS BEING IN A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT TODAY IS LARGE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS. EVEN THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO NOT BECOME SEVERE COULD PRODUCE LARGE QUANTITIES OF SMALL HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION OR CABLE TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. 44
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 149 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:52 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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, May 18, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, May 18, 2006
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, May 18, 2006
- Lightning Strike in Washington, May 18, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, May 18, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, May 18, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 18, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, May 18, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 18, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 18, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 18, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 18, 2006
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, May 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: 5508124.