Hail, Richmond
- When
- August 11, 4:46 PM EST
- Where
- Richmond County, Augusta
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Emergency Manager
- Coordinates
- 33.480, -81.970
EM reported penny size hail downtown.
Hail and Damaging Wind in Georgia, August 11, 2009
Widely scattered thunderstorms produced some wind damage in portions of the CSRA.
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
- $2,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 CAE wrote it up.
Widely scattered thunderstorms produced some wind damage in portions of the CSRA.
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 Columbia, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 11, 1:36 PM EST, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 1:36 PM EST, 3 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 236 PM EDT TUE AUG 11 2009 .SYNOPSIS... AN UPPER TROUGH...A SURFACE FRONT..AND INCREASING ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE WILL LEAD TO INCREASED RAIN CHANCES THIS WEEK. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/... WEAKENING UPPER LEVEL RIDGE AXIS TO OUR SOUTH WITH UPPER TROUGH MOVING SE ACROSS THE MIDWEST. SURFACE TROUGH CURRENTLY STRETCHED ACROSS THE CENTRAL PART OF OUR FORECAST AREA. RADAR INDICATING CONVECTION DEVELOPING ALONG IT. OTHER SURFACE FRONT TO OUR NORTH APPROACHING THE MOUNTAINS...WHERE CONVECTION DEVELOPING ALONG IT AS WELL. WILL EXPECT CONVECTION TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING ALONG THESE BOUNDARIES AS THEY SHIFT SLOWLY SE TODAY/THIS EVENING. && .SHORT TERM /WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT/... SOME SUBTLE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GFS/NAM...BUT GENERAL CONSENSUS IS UPPER TROUGHINESS TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING OVER THE EASTERN CONUS...WITH A SURFACE BOUNDARY OR TWO IN OUR VICINITY...AND ABUNDANT ATMOPSHERIC MOISTURE TO WORK WITH. WILL MAINTAIN A MOS BLEND...WHICH PROVIDES LIKELY POPS FOR WED/THU. PROJECTED MODERATE TO STRONG INSTABILITIES ALSO PROVIDES A SEVERE THREAT ALONG AND SOUTH OF BOUNDARY. PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES WELL OVER 2 INCHES...PLUS POSSIBLE TRAINING EFFECT ECHO MOVEMENT ALONG BOUNDARY WILL ALSO PROVIDE A LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN/FLOODING THREAT AS WELL. && .LONG TERM /FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/... MODELS MAINTAIN INDICATIONS OF SLOWLY INCREASING UPPER HEIGHTS OVER OUR REGION AS UPPER HIGH SLOWLY TRIES TO BUILD BACK NW TOWARD THE SE US COAST. MODELS MAINTAIN COPIOUS ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE FOR OUR REGION...AND WILL CONTINUE TO EXPECT A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE FORECAST PERIOD. && .AVIATION /19Z TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY/... A LEE SIDE TROF OVER THE MIDLANDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND EXTENDING INTO THE CSRA WILL BE THE FOCUS OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. STORMS WILL BE SCATTERED WIDELY ENOUGH TO ONLY MENTION IN THE CLOUD IDENTIFIER AT ALL TERMINAL LOCATIONS. ACTIVITY WILL DECREASE AFTER SUNSET. EXPECT VFR CONDITIONS TO PREVAIL AT ALL LOCATIONS THROUGH TO EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING EXCEPT IN THUNDERSTORMS...WHEN THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF MVFR FOG AT AGS AND OGB. A DECK OF MIDLEVEL CLOUDINESS WILL OVERSPREAD THE LATER WEDNESDAY MORNING AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT. PERIODS OF MVFR VISIBILITIES MAY BE ENCOUNTERED IN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON WEDNESDAY. OTHERWISE...NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS EXPECTED DURING THE EXTENDED PERIOD. && .CAE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SC...NONE. GA...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 11, 9:53 AM EST, 6 hours 53 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1053 AM EDT TUE AUG 11 2009 GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-121500- LINCOLN-MCDUFFIE-COLUMBIA-RICHMOND-BURKE-LANCASTER-CHESTERFIELD- MCCORMICK-NEWBERRY-FAIRFIELD-KERSHAW-EDGEFIELD-SALUDA-LEXINGTON- RICHLAND-LEE-AIKEN-SUMTER-BARNWELL-ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN-CLARENDON- BAMBERG- 1053 AM EDT TUE AUG 11 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA AND CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAINFALL...AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN A WARM AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. SOME STORMS MAY BE STRONG TO SEVERE...WITH THE MAIN THREATS BEING DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 11, 3:28 PM EST, 1 hour 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
428 PM EDT TUE AUG 11 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0145 PM TSTM WND DMG 4 SE SOUTH SUMTER 33.84N 80.30W
08/11/2009 SUMTER SC EMERGENCY MNGR
SUMTER COUNTY EMA REPORTED A COUPLE OF TREES BLOWN OVER A
RESIDENTIAL YARD ON BRITTON ROAD, OFF HWY 521S.
&&
MOORELocal storm report, Aug 11, 3:58 PM EST, 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
458 PM EDT TUE AUG 11 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0456 PM TSTM WND DMG ORANGEBURG 33.49N 80.87W
08/11/2009 ORANGEBURG SC DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
TREES DOWN ALONG PARTRIDGE LANE NEAR U.S. HIGHWAY 178
&&
CHERRYThe radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 94 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:45 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Richmond
- When
- August 11, 4:50 PM EST
- Where
- Richmond County, Augusta
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- Broadcast Media
- Coordinates
- 33.480, -81.970
TV 26 in Augusta reported large limbs down on Broad Street and some trees down on Green street.
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.
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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: 180332, 180331.