Hail, Iredell
- When
- June 3, 1:53 PM EST
- Where
- Iredell County, 8.5 mi WNW of Turnersburg
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 35.947, -80.960
Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 3, 2008
A couple severe storms developed over the western Piedmont of North Carolina during the afternoon 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
- 7
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 couple severe storms developed over the western Piedmont of North Carolina during the afternoon 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 Jun 3, 1:18 PM EST, 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 1:18 PM EST, 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 218 PM EDT TUE JUN 3 2008 .SYNOPSIS... WEAK HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE OFF THE NORTH CAROLINA COAST THIS AFTERNOON...AS LOW PRESSURE MOVES ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY. BY WEDNESDAY...THE SOUTHEAST WILL BE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE WESTERN EDGE OF SUBTROPICAL HIGH PRESSURE...WHICH WILL LAST THROUGH AT LEAST THE EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... DEEP CONVECTIVE CVRG LOOKING ABOUT LIKE IT SHOULD BE AS OF 18 UTC... JUST ISOLATED STRONG STORMS ON THE SCOPE WITHIN LAPS INDICATED POCKETS OF 2000-3000 J/KG CAPE VALUES...MAXIMIZED ALONG THE FOOTHILLS. FURTHER HEATING...LOCALIZED ADDITIONAL DESTABILIZATION...AND INTERACTION WITH OUTFLOWS SHOULD CONTINUE TO INCREASE TSTM CVRG THROUGH EARLY EVENING. WET BULB ZERO HEIGHTS ON THE HIGH SIDE...AS PER LAPS SNDGS...SHOULD BE ENHANCED BY GREATER DOWNDRAFT CAPE VALUES...THE AXIS OF WHICH CURRENTLY EXTENDS UP THE SPINE OF THE APPALACHIANS AS THE AFTERNOON WEARS ON TO PROMOTE A FEW SEVERE TSTMS. A DEGREE OF WEAK ELEVATED INSTABILITY DOES CONTINUE ALL NIGHT...BUT IT IS NOT READILY APPARENT WHETHER ANY LIFT SOURCES WILL BE PRESENT TO TRIGGER ADDITIONAL STORMS PAST MID-EVENING. UPPER RIDGING/RISING HEIGHTS STILL PROGGED TO POKE NORTHWARD INTO THE CWFA ON WEDNESDAY. AS LOWER ELEVATIONS TEMPERATURES ROCKET INTO THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 90S IN THE AFTERNOON...IT IS LIKELY THAT A DEVELOPING MODERATELY UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL BE THE RESULT. SOMEWHAT DRIER AIR THROUGHOUT THE LLVLS AND THE OVERALL WEAKER SHEAR THROUGHOUT THE DEPTH OF ATMOSPHERE SHOULD RESULT IN TSTMS OF LESS CVRG AND INTENSITY ESPECIALLY ACRS THE SOUTHERN CWFA. && .SHORT TERM /WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT/... AS OF 235 AM TUESDAY...THE UPPER RIDGE WILL GRADUALLY BUILD NORTHWARD INTO THE MID-ATLANTIC STATES THROUGH THE SHORT TERM PERIOD. THIS WILL RESULT IN GRADUALLY DIMINISHING CHANCES FOR DIURNAL CONVECTION AND WARMER TEMPS DURING MID-WEEK. POPS TO DIMINISH ON THURSDAY AS THE MID-LEVELS CONTINUE TO WARM. THE MAIN STORY FOR THURSDAY WILL BE THE HEAT...AS MAX TEMPS SHOULD PEAK IN THE MID 90S IN MOST LOCATIONS EAST OF THE MTNS. && .LONG TERM /FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY/... AS OF 245 AM TUESDAY...ACCORDING TO THE MEDIUM RANGE MODELS...SUMMER HAS MADE AN EARLY APPEARANCE AND DOESN/T APPEAR TOO ANXIOUS TO GO ANYWHERE. THE MID-LEVEL RIDGE REMAINS OVER THE AREA IN SOME FORM OR ANOTHER THROUGH DAY 7. THE RESULT WILL BE TEMPS 10-15 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL AND ISOLATED TO /MAYBE/ WIDELY SCATTERED DIURNAL CONVECTION. && .AVIATION /18Z TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY/... CU FIELD...OCNL BKN...WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON...INITIALLY AROUND 3000 FEET. OTHERWISE...IT REMAINS INCONCLUSIVE WHETHER DEEP CONVECTIVE THREAT AT ANY SPECIFIC TERMINAL WILL BE HIGH ENUF TO FCST ANY HIGHER CHANCE THAN GOING VCTS. DIURNALLY DRIVEN TSTMS SHOULD DISSIPATE BY MID-EVENING LEAVING JUST VARIABLE DEBRIS CLOUDINESS. BASED ON HIGHER DWPTS WEDNESDAY MORNING...HAVE GONE JUST A TAD WORSE THAN PERSISTENCE...FCSTG 6SM BR AT KAVL/KHKY. OF COURSE...VSBYS WILL BE LOCALLY LOWER WHERE TSTMS OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON. MOIST WAA FLOW COULD DEVELOP LOWER STRATOCU AROUND DAYBREAK...BUT WITH THE 09 UTC SREF PROGGING HIGHEST CIG RESTRICTION PROBABILITIES ACRS THE CENTRAL CAROLINAS...WILL FCST JUST A SCT LAYER AROUND 3000 FEET THROUGH MID-MORNING. OUTLOOK...MAINLY ISOLATED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...IN THE AFTERNOONS AND EVENINGS. PATCHY MORNING FOG WILL BECOME MORE LIKELY AS MORNING DEW POINTS INCREASE THROUGH THE WEEK. FOG WILL BE MOST LIKELY NEAR BODIES OF WATER AND LOCATIONS THAT RECEIVE RAINFALL THE PREVIOUS EVENING. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...SBK NEAR TERM...CSH SHORT TERM...JDL LONG TERM...JDL AVIATION...CSH
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 5:15 AM EST, 8 hours 38 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 615 AM EDT TUE JUN 3 2008 GAZ010-017-018-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065-068>072- 501>510-SCZ001>008-041015- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-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-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- 615 AM EDT TUE JUN 3 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS BY EARLY AFTERNOON...THEN SPREAD EAST INTO THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON. INSTABILITY AND WIND FIELDS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THE HIGHEST COVERAGE OF STORMS...AND THEREFORE THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER...IS EXPECTED TO BE NORTH OF I-85...ESPECIALLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS. THE MAIN THREATS WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. HOWEVER...AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE PIEDMONT DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. GAZ026-028-029-NCZ082-SCZ009>014-019-041015- FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-UNION NC-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS- UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 615 AM EDT TUE JUN 3 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE PIEDMONT OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREATS. HOWEVER... THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER TODAY WILL EXIST NORTH OF I-85. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED. LANE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 1:27 PM EST, 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 227 PM EDT TUE JUN 3 2008 NCZ068>070-031900- CLEVELAND-GASTON-LINCOLN- 227 PM EDT TUE JUN 3 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN CLEVELAND...NORTHERN GASTON AND SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTIES THROUGH 300 PM EDT... AT 225 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR CHERRYVILLE...OR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF SHELBY...MOVING EAST AT 26 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... 5 MILES NORTH OF BESSEMER CITY BY 240 PM EDT. DALLAS BY 255 PM EDT. STANLEY BY 300 PM EDT. SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 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. ARK
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 1:30 PM EST, 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 230 PM EDT TUE JUN 3 2008 NCZ035>037-031900- ALEXANDER-DAVIE-IREDELL- 230 PM EDT TUE JUN 3 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN ALEXANDER... NORTHERN IREDELL AND NORTHWESTERN DAVIE COUNTIES THROUGH 300 PM EDT... AT 225 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WINDY GAP...OR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF TAYLORSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 23 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF HARMONY BY 300 PM EDT. SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 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. ARK
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
6 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Iredell
- When
- June 3, 1:54 PM EST
- Where
- Iredell County, 7 mi WNW of Turnersburg
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 35.939, -80.936
Hail, Iredell
- When
- June 3, 2:12 PM EST
- Where
- Iredell County, 0.31 mi WNW of Charles
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 35.921, -80.856
Reported at exit 59 on I-77.
Hail, Iredell
- When
- June 3, 2:21 PM EST
- Where
- Iredell County, 4.5 mi NNW of Statesville
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 35.840, -80.931
Reported at 54 on I-77.
Hail, Iredell
- When
- June 3, 2:24 PM EST
- Where
- Iredell County, 7 mi N of Statesville
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 35.881, -80.900
Thunderstorm Wind, Iredell
- When
- June 3, 2:25 PM EST to 2:27 PM EST
- Where
- Iredell County, 6 mi NNE of Statesville to 4 mi NE of Statesville
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 35.860, -80.859
Trees blown down.
Hail, Rowan
- When
- June 3, 3:10 PM EST to 3:16 PM EST
- Where
- Rowan County, 2 mi N of Cleveland
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 35.759, -80.680
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
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Indiana, June 3 to 4, 2008
- Flooding in Missouri, June 3 to 30, 2008
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in West Virginia, June 3 to 5, 2008
- Flooding in Illinois, June 3 to 30, 2008
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 3, 2008
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Indiana, June 3, 2008
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Missouri, June 3 to 4, 2008
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 3, 2008
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Ohio, June 3 to 5, 2008
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Illinois, June 3, 2008
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 3, 2008
- Tornado and Hail in Virginia, June 3, 2008
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, June 2008
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: 119019, 119021, 119027, 119031, 119032, 119033, 119035.