Hail, Cabarrus
- When
- June 11, 1:31 PM EST
- Where
- Cabarrus County, 2.9 mi WNW of Jackson Park
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 35.410, -80.670
Quarter size hail near the intersection of Poplar Tent Rd and George Liles Parkway.
Scattered airmass thunderstorms developed over western North Carolina during the afternoon hours. As in previous days, a few of the storms became severe producing large hail and wind damage.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
The episode as NWS GSP wrote it up.
Scattered airmass thunderstorms developed over western North Carolina during the afternoon hours. As in previous days, a few of the storms became severe producing large hail and wind damage.
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 11, 12:42 PM EST, 49 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 142 PM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011 .SYNOPSIS... A WEAK RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL PERSIST ACROSS THE REGION TODAY. A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE AREA FROM THE NORTHWEST ON SUNDAY AND MOVE SOUTH OF THE REGION INTO MONDAY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD SOUTHWARD INTO THE AREA BEHIND THE FRONT THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK...BRINGING SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPERATURES. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/... AT 1130 AM...LATEST VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGES SHOW AN EXPANDING AREA OF MID LEVEL CLOUDS ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE MTNS WITH CU OVER THE RIDGES. MESOSCALE ANALYSIS INDICATES WEAK CIN ACROSS THE CWA...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE NC PIEDMONT. MID LEVEL CLOUDS MAY SLOW DESTABILIZATION SLIGHTLY. AS THE CASE THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS...CONVECTION SHOULD INITIATE OVER THE RIDGES NEAR THE EAST FACING SLOPES EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. SHRA/TSRA SHOULD DRIFT EAST DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. I WILL INCREASE POPS ACROSS THE MTNS...WITH LIKELY ACROSS THE RIDGES. IT APPEARS THAT CHC POPS WILL VERIFY ACROSS THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT. HIGH TEMPERATURES LOOK ON TRACK WITH U80S ACROSS THE MTNS TO L90S EAST. FORECAST SOUNDINGS AND SREF GUIDANCE INDICATED THAT CAPES WILL RANGE BETWEEN 1000 TO 2000 J/KG. DCAPE VALUES MAY RANGE AROUND 1000 J/KG. FZL SHOULD RANGE AROUND 13 KFT...PLACING THE 55 DBZ CORE HEIGHT AROUND 24 KFT. PW SHOULD RANGE FROM 1.25 TO 1.5 INCHES WITH K-INDEX VALUES IN THE MID 30S. STORM MOTIONS WILL REMAIN VERY SLOW...INCREASING POTENTIAL FOR EXCESSIVE RAINFALL. SEVERAL STORMS MAY PRODUCE SVR HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. WE WILL CONTINUE TO MENTION IN THE HWO. && .SHORT TERM /SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT/... AS OF 230 AM SATURDAY...THE UPPER LEVEL FLOW PATTERN WILL AMPLIFY SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...WITH A STRONG RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE SRN PLAINS AND DEEP LOW PRESSURE ACROSS NEW ENGLAND. ON THE STRENGTH OF NW FLOW BETWEEN THESE FEATURES...A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH FROM THE NW SUNDAY AFTERNOON. MOS POPS APPEARS TOO LOW GIVEN THE INSTABILITY AND BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE AHEAD OF THE APPROACHING FRONT...SO WILL FEATURE POPS IN THE SOLID CHANCE RANGE LATE SUNDAY. THE BOUNDARY WILL SETTLE SOUTH OF THE REGION THROUGH MONDAY. A FAIRLY POTENT SHORTWAVE IS INDICATED IN THE CONTINUED NW FLOW...PLUS UPSTREAM MCS ACTIVITY COULD REACH THE AREA MONDAY OR MONDAY NIGHT...BUT CONFIDENCE IS LOW ON THIS. WILL JUST ADVERTISE SLIGHT CHANCES IN THE MOUNTAINS FOR NOW AS MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE DRYING OUT BEHIND THE BOUNDARY. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN A FEW DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. && .LONG TERM /TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... AS OF 1230 PM SATURDAY...THE MEDIUM RANGE LOOKS LIKE A RETURN TO SOMEWHAT ACTIVE WEATHER FOR THE LATTER HALF OF NEXT WEEK. ALTHOUGH THE GUIDANCE SHOWS A SHORT WAVE RIDGE MOVING ACROSS THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...A MEAN UPPER LONG WAVE TROF WILL REMAIN OVER THE EASTERN PART OF THE COUNTRY. AFTER A DRY TUESDAY NIGHT...DIURNAL CONVECTION WILL BE THE RULE ON WEDNESDAY. THE MAIN FEATURE OF INTEREST HERE IS THE NEXT UPPER LOW DROPPING DOWN ACROSS THE MIDWEST ON THURSDAY. THIS IS EXPECTED TO BRING DEEPER MOISTURE AND FORCING INTO THE AREA FROM THE WEST ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THIS MAY MANIFEST ITSELF AS A WARM FRONT OF SORTS MOVING THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING EARLY IN THE DAY WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS. A COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO DROP INTO THE FCST AREA ON THURSDAY AND THEN SHOULD STALL ACROSS THE AREA FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. SO...THURSDAY AND THURSDAY EVENING COULD HAVE A SHOWER OR STORM AT ANY TIME. SUSPECT THAT COVERAGE WILL BE NUMEROUS TO WIDESPREAD WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE...BUT THE POP WILL BE LIMITED TO CHANCE FOR THE TIME BEING. THE PRESENCE OF THE SURFACE BOUNDARY SHOULD GIVE US A DECENT CHANCE FOR MORE PRECIP FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...BUT IT WILL BE MODULATED BY THE DIURNAL CYCLE. TEMPS GENERALLY HAVE BEEN NUDGED DOWNWARD A FEW DEGREES OWING TO MORE CLOUD COVER ACROSS THE REGION. && .AVIATION /18Z SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/... AT KCLT AND ELSEWHERE...AT 1730Z...DEEP CONVECTION ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA WAS SOLIDLY TIED TO THE RIDGES...WITH A SLOW DRIFT EAST. DEEP CONVECTION WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE ACROSS THE MTNS THIS AFTERNOON...SPREADING INTO THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. DEEP MOISTURE AND LINGERING INSTABILITY MAY SUPPORT SHRA/TSRA WELL INTO THE EVENING...COVERAGE SHOULD BEGIN TO DECREASE AROUND 2Z. OVERNIGHT...DEBRIS CLOUDS AND LIGHT SW WINDS REMAIN ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. PERSISTENCE AND MODEL CONSENSUS FAVORS KEEPING THE TAFS P6SM OVERNIGHT. A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS SUNDAY MORNING. THE ASSOCIATED WIND SHIFT AND CONVECTION IS FORECAST TO REMAIN WEST OF THE TAFS BEFORE 18Z. OUTLOOK...A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE IN FROM THE NORTHWEST SUNDAY...WITH RESTRICTIONS ACCOMPANYING CONVECTION. DRIER HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD IN FROM THE NORTH EARLY NEXT WEEK. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...HG NEAR TERM...NED SHORT TERM...HG LONG TERM...PM AVIATION...NED
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 516 AM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-120930- 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- 516 AM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL AS LARGE AS QUARTERS. THE STORMS WILL MOVE VERY SLOWLY AND LOCALIZED FLOODING MAY RESULT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION FROM THE NORTHWEST ON SUNDAY. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT...WITH SEVERAL STORMS LIKELY BECOMING SEVERE. DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN CONCERNS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO FORWARD ANY REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...TORNADOES OR FLASH FLOODING TO OUR OFFICE. HG
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1055 AM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0522 PM TSTM WND DMG WALHALLA 34.77N 83.06W
06/10/2011 OCONEE SC FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
TREES DOWN AROUND WALHALLA.
&&
MOOREPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1112 AM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0513 PM TSTM WND DMG FLETCHER 35.43N 82.50W
06/10/2011 HENDERSON NC 911 CALL CENTER
ONE TREE IN THE ROADWAY ON HWY 25...ASHEVILLE HWY.
&&
KRENTZSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1250 PM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011
NCZ503-505-111730-
BURKE MOUNTAINS-MCDOWELL MOUNTAINS-
1250 PM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN MCDOWELL AND
NORTHWESTERN BURKE COUNTIES THROUGH 130 PM EDT...
AT 1245 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF ASHFORD...OR 11 MILES EAST
OF SPRUCE PINE...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.
ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF OLD FORT WAS
ALSO MOVING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTH AT 5 MPH.
PEOPLE IN NORTHERN MCDOWELL AND NORTHWESTERN BURKE COUNTIES...
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
ASHFORD...
OLD FORT...
SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE
WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE
WEATHER THREATEN.
SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE
STORMS.
LAT...LON 3595 8178 3592 8176 3556 8224 3570 8229
3573 8220 3577 8216 3579 8217 3585 8209
3585 8205 3588 8203 3588 8200 3592 8195
3595 8196 3600 8190
MOOREPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
158 PM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0626 PM HAIL 2 SE VALDESE 35.73N 81.53W
06/10/2011 E0.88 INCH BURKE NC TRAINED SPOTTER
MARBLE TO NICKEL SIZED HAIL.
&&
MOORESPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
218 PM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011
GAZ010-NCZ062>064-SCZ001-111900-
MACON-OCONEE MOUNTAINS-RABUN-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA-
218 PM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN RABUN...NORTHERN
OCONEE...SOUTHEASTERN MACON...SOUTHERN JACKSON AND SOUTHWESTERN
TRANSYLVANIA COUNTIES THROUGH 300 PM EDT...
AT 214 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF CASHIERS...OR 17 MILES NORTH OF
WALHALLA...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.
PEOPLE IN NORTHEASTERN RABUN...NORTHERN OCONEE...SOUTHEASTERN
MACON...SOUTHERN JACKSON AND SOUTHWESTERN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTIES...
SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE
WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE
WEATHER THREATEN.
SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.
LAT...LON 3511 8319 3513 8291 3504 8291 3502 8292
3501 8292 3499 8294 3497 8292 3495 8292
3494 8290 3487 8291 3483 8289 3486 8320
3492 8325
MOORESPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
227 PM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011
NCZ037-057-111915-
DAVIE-ROWAN-
227 PM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT ROWAN AND SOUTHEASTERN DAVIE
COUNTIES THROUGH 315 PM EDT...
AT 227 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPENCER...OR 6 MILES NORTH
OF SALISBURY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
PEOPLE IN ROWAN AND SOUTHEASTERN DAVIE COUNTIES...
SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE
WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE
WEATHER THREATEN.
SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.
LAT...LON 3556 8067 3574 8073 3594 8037 3589 8036
3588 8041 3585 8038 3582 8046 3579 8047
3577 8045 3574 8045 3572 8038 3573 8034
3570 8032
MOOREThe Greer radar (KGSP), 153 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:31 UTC.
7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Quarter size hail near the intersection of Poplar Tent Rd and George Liles Parkway.
A few trees were blown down around Concord.
Dime size hail fell at the intersection of Centergrove Rd and Camp Julia Rd.
Dime size hail was reported on Bruton Smith Bvd.
Multiple large trees and tree limbs were blown down on the south side of Hickory.
Hail up to the size of quarters covered the ground on the south side of Hickory.
Ham radio operator and trained spotter reported multiple trees down along Blacksburg Rd, from South Post Rd down to Earl. One tree was on a house at Earl.
Multiple trees and power lines were blown down on Stewart Rd near Dixon School Rd.
A tree was blown down on Huntingtowne Farms Lane. Large limbs were blown down in the same area.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, June 2011
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: 320271, 320272, 320273, 320274, 320275, 320276, 320277, 320278, 320279, 320565, 320566, 320571.