Hail, Elbert
- When
- July 27, 4:38 PM EST
- Where
- Elbert County, 5.02 mi WSW of Montevideo
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Utility Company
- Coordinates
- 34.235, -82.897
Hail fell on highway 77.
Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 27, 2008
A few severe storms affected extreme northeast Georgia during the evening hours.
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
- 3
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 happened
The episode as NWS GSP wrote it up.
A few severe storms affected extreme northeast Georgia during the evening hours.
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 Jul 27, 1:52 PM EST, 2 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 1:52 PM EST, 2 hours 46 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 252 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008 .SYNOPSIS... A WEAK COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO DISSIPATE AS IT APPROACHES OUR AREA FROM THE NORTHWEST ON MONDAY. ANOTHER WEAK COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SLOWLY SOUTHEAST OVER THE CAROLINAS DURING MID WEEK AND STALL OUT SOUTH OF THE FORECAST AREA LATER IN THE WEEK. ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL THEN PUSH ITS WAY SOUTH AND TOWARD THE CAROLINAS NEXT WEEKEND. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT/... THE BEST COVERAGE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING SHOULD BE WITHIN THE BETTER INSTABILITY ACROSS THE CENTRAL/EASTERN CAROLINAS. HOWEVER...BOUNDARY LAYER CONVERGENCE AND MODERATE INSTABILITY WILL YIELD ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE GSP CWFA AS WELL. IN FACT...WE/VE SEEN A COUPLE OF CELLS DEVELOP WITHIN THE PAST FEW MINUTES ALONG THE BLUE RIDGE IN NORTH CAROLINA. A COUPLE OF SEVERE STORMS CANNOT BE RULED OUT...BUT WITH FREEZING LEVELS AROUND 15 KFT...A HIGH REFLECTIVITY CORE WILL HAVE TO EXTEND TO AROUND 35 KFT FOR LARGE HAIL TO OCCUR. ALSO...THE AIR IN THE SUB-CLOUD LAYER IS NOT ESPECIALLY DRY (DEWPOINT DEPRESSIONS OF 15-20 DEGREES)...WHILE WIND SHEAR IS MODERATELY STRONG...SO IT APPEARS DAMAGING WIND WILL ONLY BE A CONCERN IF CONVECTION ORGANIZES ALONG OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES... WHICH DOESN/T SEEM VERY LIKELY. WHATEVER CONVECTION DOES GET GOING SHOULD PUSH EAST OF THE CWFA BY MID-EVENING. DRIER AIR WILL EXIST ACROSS THE AREA ON MONDAY IN THE WAKE OF THE WEAK COLD FRONT. IN FACT...THE MODELS ARE GENERATING LITTLE IN THE WAY OF INSTABILITY EXCEPT ACROSS THE EXTREME SOUTHERN FRINGE OF THE FORECAST AREA...WHILE THE NAM DESTABILIZES THE ATM OVER THE SOUTHWEST MTNS DURING THE AFTERNOON. WE HAVE ALTERED TOMORROW AFTERNOON/S SLIGHT CHANCES TO REFLECT THIS DISTRIBUTION OF INSTABILITY. && .SHORT TERM /TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... AS OF 245 PM SUNDAY... SLIGHT CHANCE POPS SOUTHERN AND WESTERN ZONES WILL BE CARRIED INTO MONDAY EVENING WITH GRADUAL DECREASE TO NO POPS WITH LOSS OF DIURNAL HEATING. SURFACE PATTERN ON TUESDAY WILL BE DOMINATED BY BERMUDA HIGH CENTERED WELL OFFSHORE WITH AXIS OF HIGH WESTWARD INTO GULF OF MEXICO. RESULT WILL BE A SOUTHWEST WIND FLOW ACROSS MOST OF SOUTHEASTERN STATES. WILL INCREASE POPS INTO LOW CHANCE CATEGORY AS A NOD TOWARD NAM WHICH INCREASES MEAN R.H. IN WEAKLY CONFLUENT SURFACE WIND FLOW. BOTH GFS AND SREF SHOW WEAK LEE TROUGH ACROSS PIEDMONT BY LATE IN DAY WEDNESDAY... BUT WILL CARRY HIGHEST AFTERNOON POPS OVER MOUNTAINS WHERE HEATING IS MOST LIKELY TO TRIGGER CONVECTION. GUIDANCE INDICATES BASIC SURFACE FEATURES ON WEDNESDAY WILL ONCE AGAIN CONSIST OF BERMUDA HIGH EXTENDING INTO SOUTHEASTERN STATES WITH LEE TROUGH ACROSS PIEDMONT. FLOW ALOFT REMAINS RATHER WEAK FROM THE NORTHWEST... BUT GFS DEPICTS 500 MB SHORT WAVE APPROACHING FROM THE NORTHWEST. SHORT WAVE WILL PROBABLY BE A LITTLE TOO FAR AWAY AT END OF DAY TO HAVE MUCH AFFECT ON CWA... SO WILL GO WITH CHANCE POPS THAT ARE DRIVEN BASICALLY BY DIURNAL HEATING. TEMPERATURES FORECASTS FOLLOW THE GFS MOS GUIDANCE WHICH HAS DAYTIME HIGHS IN LOW AND MID 90S EXCEPT 80S IN MOUNTAINS. && .LONG TERM /WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY/... AS OF 2 PM SUNDAY...BROAD AND WEAK UPPER LEVEL TROF IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ITS SLOW TREK ACROSS THE NORTHEASTERN STATES THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIOD. ONCE THIS TROF FINALLY MOVES OFF THE EASTERN SEABOARD...A SUBSTANTIAL RIDGE WILL BUILD ACROSS THE UPPER PLAINS AND MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD. THURSDAY STILL APPEARS TO BE THE MOST ACTIVE DURING THE PERIOD WITH A STRONG SHORT WAVE TRAVERSING THE AREA. INSTABILITY SHOULD REMAIN FAIRLY HIGH FOR MOST OF THE PERIOD AND PROVIDE FOR AT LEAST A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE WEEKEND. THE MID AND UPPER LEVELS DO DRY OUT FRI AND SAT AS A SUBSIDENCE PATTERN SETS UP AND DYNAMIC FORCING LOOKS POOR. TEMPS ARE STILL EXPECTED TO BE A FEW DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL DUE IN PART TO THE UNCHANGING AIRMASS. AMPLE BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE SHOULD ALSO HELP KEEP MIN TEMPS A COUPLE DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL AS WELL. && .AVIATION /19Z SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... THE ATMOSPHERE HAS BECOME MODERATELY UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON...AND VISIBLE SATELLITE INDICATES QUITE A BIT OF TOWERING CU DEVELOPING...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE BLUE RIDGE...AND ALONG/EAST OF THE I-77 CORRIDOR. AS SUCH...IT APPEARS THAT KHKY AND KCLT STAND THE BEST CHANCE OF EXPERIENCING A TSRA THIS AFTERNOON...SO VCTS WILL BE CARRIED THERE. ELSEWHERE...CONVECTION SHOULD BE MORE ISOLATED...SO A CB CLOUD GROUP APPEARS TO BE MORE APPROPRIATE AT THOSE TERMINALS. CONVECTION SHOULD CLEAR THE AREA BY EARLY EVENING...LEAVING MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES THROUGH 18Z MONDAY. SOME EARLY MORNING MVFR WILL BE POSSIBLE AT KAVL. OUTLOOK...THE AXIS OF A LONG WAVE TROF WILL REMAIN NEAR THE ATLANTIC COAST THROUGH TUESDAY. WEAK DISTURBANCES WITHIN THE TROF MAY TRIGGER AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. A BACK DOOR COLD FRONT WILL SLIDE TOWARDS THE FORECAST AREA WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. COVERAGE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD INCREASE EACH DAY. RICH LLVL MOISTURE MAY RESULT IN PATCHY FOG EACH MORNING. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...JPT NEAR TERM...JDL SHORT TERM...LGL LONG TERM...JPT AVIATION...JDL
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 27, 3:03 PM EST, 1 hour 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 403 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008 GAZ010-NCZ033-048>053-058-059-062>065-501-503-505-507-509-281000- RABUN-AVERY-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE-GRAHAM- NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON- CALDWELL MOUNTAINS-BURKE MOUNTAINS-MCDOWELL MOUNTAINS- RUTHERFORD MOUNTAINS-POLK MOUNTAINS- 403 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR PRIMARILY DURING THE AFTERNOONS AND EVENINGS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. GAZ017-018-026-028-029-NCZ035>037-056-057-068>072-082-502-504-506- 508-510-SCZ001>014-019-281000- HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-ALEXANDER-IREDELL-DAVIE- CATAWBA-ROWAN-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION NC- GREATER CALDWELL-GREATER BURKE-EASTERN MCDOWELL-GREATER RUTHERFORD- EASTERN POLK-OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS- GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG- CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 403 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN... GUSTY WIND... AND LIGHTNING. SMALL HAIL COULD OCCUR WITH SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR PRIMARILY DURING THE AFTERNOONS AND EVENINGS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. LGL
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 27, 2:57 PM EST, 1 hour 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
357 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0320 PM TSTM WND DMG 2 WNW ADVANCE 35.95N 80.44W
07/27/2008 DAVIE NC COUNTY OFFICIAL
2 TREES DOWN NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF LAQUINTA DRIVE AND
BEAUCHAMP ROAD.
&&
BSHSpecial weather statement, Jul 27, 3:26 PM EST, 1 hour 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 426 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008 NCZ037-272100- DAVIE- 426 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN DAVIE COUNTY THROUGH 500 PM EDT... AT 426 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR FARMINGTON...OR 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF MOCKSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 16 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... BERMUDA RUN BY 435 PM EDT. ADVANCE BY 445 PM EDT. PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. BSH
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 3:32 PM EST, 1 hour 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 432 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008 SCZ005-010-272115- ANDERSON-GREATER PICKENS- 432 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT ANDERSON AND SOUTHERN PICKENS COUNTIES THROUGH 515 PM EDT... AT 432 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR PENDLETON...OR 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CLEMSON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... ANDERSON BY 455 PM EDT. 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BROADWAY LAKE BY 505 PM EDT. 5 MILES NORTH OF IVA BY 515 PM EDT. PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. BSH
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 3:41 PM EST, 57 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 441 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008 SCZ004-005-010-272130- ANDERSON-GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS- 441 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN OCONEE... SOUTHWESTERN PICKENS AND WESTERN ANDERSON COUNTIES THROUGH 530 PM EDT... AT 441 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SENECA...OR 6 MILES WEST OF CLEMSON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 16 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PENDLETON BY 455 PM EDT. 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SANDY SPRINGS BY 510 PM EDT. PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. BSH
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 3:58 PM EST, 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 458 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008 GAZ028-272145- HART- 458 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT HART COUNTY THROUGH 545 PM EDT... AT 453 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR HARTWELL...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... NUBERG BY 525 PM EDT. PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. BSH
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 4:38 PM EST, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 538 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008 SCZ011-019-272230- ABBEVILLE-GREENWOOD- 538 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN ABBEVILLE AND WESTERN GREENWOOD COUNTIES THROUGH 630 PM EDT... AT 538 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DUE WEST...OR 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF ABBEVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 14 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COKESBURY BY 550 PM EDT. 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREENWOOD BY 620 PM EDT. PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. BSH
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 95 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:37 UTC.
Event by event
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Elbert
- When
- July 27, 4:41 PM EST to 4:47 PM EST
- Where
- Elbert County, 0.49 mi SSW of Harper to 1.69 mi NE of Match
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- County Official
- Coordinates
- 34.193, -82.982
Trees were blown down near the intersection of highway 17 and Christian Rd, on Pulliam Mill Rd, Fork Creek Rd, and Moon Rd.
Thunderstorm Wind, Elbert
- When
- July 27, 4:54 PM EST to 4:58 PM EST
- Where
- Elbert County, 1.81 mi E of Match to 1.2 mi S of Dewey Rose
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- County Official
- Coordinates
- 34.155, -82.989
Trees were blown down on Hewell Rd, Deep Creek Rd, and Stinchcomb Rd.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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More
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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: 128795, 128799, 128801.