Cold temperatures aloft made the environment conducive for hail and one storm in Horry County did produce large hail during the evening.
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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 ILM wrote it up.
Cold temperatures aloft made the environment conducive for hail and one storm in Horry County did produce large hail during the evening.
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 Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 12, 2:11 PM EST, 2 hours 49 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 412 PM EDT MON SEP 12 2011 NCZ106-108-110-SCZ054-056-132015- COASTAL PENDER-COASTAL NEW HANOVER-COASTAL BRUNSWICK-COASTAL HORRY- COASTAL GEORGETOWN- 412 PM EDT MON SEP 12 2011 ...MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... ...MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THROUGH 8 PM THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. FOR TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... THE INCREASED RIP CURRENT THREAT WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS PERIOD DUE TO SWELL FROM DISTANT TROPICAL CYCLONE MARIA AFFECTING THE SURF ACROSS THE AREA BEACHES. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ087-096-099-105-107-109-SCZ017-023-024-032-033-039-053-055-132015- ROBESON-BLADEN-COLUMBUS-INLAND PENDER-INLAND NEW HANOVER- INLAND BRUNSWICK-MARLBORO-DARLINGTON-DILLON-FLORENCE-MARION- WILLIAMSBURG-INLAND HORRY-INLAND GEORGETOWN- 412 PM EDT MON SEP 12 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. AMZ250-252-254-256-132015- SURF CITY TO CAPE FEAR NC OUT 20 NM- CAPE FEAR NC TO LITTLE RIVER INLET SC OUT 20 NM- LITTLE RIVER INLET TO MURRELLS INLET SC OUT 20 NM- MURRELLS INLET TO SOUTH SANTEE RIVER SC OUT 20 NM- 412 PM EDT MON SEP 12 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. FOR TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... SWELL FROM DISTANT TROPICAL CYCLONE MARIA WILL BUILD SEAS TO JUST SHY OF SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CRITERIA. NAVIGATING TO AND FROM AREA INLETS AT THE PEAK OF MARIA SWELL...ESPECIALLY DURING AN OUTGOING TIDE...COULD POSE HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR LOCAL MARINERS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. SGL
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</html>SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
509 PM EDT MON SEP 12 2011
NCZ099-122215-
COLUMBUS-
509 PM EDT MON SEP 12 2011
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN COLUMBUS COUNTY...
AT 508 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND JUST SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 76 BETWEEN FAIR BLUFF
AND CHADBOURN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE WHITEVILLE...BETHEL...BUGHILL...
CHADBOURN...CHERRY GROVE...CLARENDON...CRUSOE ISLAND...FAIR BLUFF...
MOLLIE...NAKINA...OLD DOCK AND SIDNEY.
HAZARDS INCLUDE...
PEA SIZE HAIL.
GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH.
SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING OR VEHICLE. STRONG WINDS ARE
CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN SMALL TREES AND BLOWING AROUND TRASH CANS...
POTTED PLANTS...LAWN FURNITURE AND OTHER LIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS.
&&
LAT...LON 3418 7839 3414 7843 3417 7851 3414 7855
3413 7854 3412 7855 3408 7856 3408 7855
3407 7856 3404 7875 3431 7907 3431 7904
3435 7903 3436 7901 3440 7879
TIME...MOT...LOC 2108Z 299DEG 14KT 3429 7875 3428 7898
RASSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
515 PM EDT MON SEP 12 2011
SCZ053-054-122215-
COASTAL HORRY-INLAND HORRY-
515 PM EDT MON SEP 12 2011
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER HORRY COUNTY...
AT 514 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST
EAST OF CONWAY...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. THROUGH 630 PM...THIS
THUNDERSTORM WILL MAINLY AFFECT LOCATIONS EAST OF HIGHWAY 701 AND
BETWEEN HIGHWAYS 501 AND 22.
SOME LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE NORTH MYRTLE BEACH...RED HILL...
CHERRY GROVE BEACH...HAND...ATLANTIC BEACH AND BRIARCLIFFE ACRES.
HAZARDS INCLUDE...
PEA SIZE HAIL.
GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH.
SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING OR VEHICLE. STRONG WINDS ARE
CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN SMALL TREES AND BLOWING AROUND TRASH CANS...
POTTED PLANTS...LAWN FURNITURE AND OTHER LIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS.
&&
LAT...LON 3378 7907 3394 7898 3383 7863 3377 7875
3369 7887
TIME...MOT...LOC 2114Z 286DEG 6KT 3380 7894
RASThe Wilmington radar (KLTX), 60 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:00 UTC.
3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail to the size of nickels was reported at the intersection of Highway 544 and Singleton Ridge Road. The time was estimated based on radar data.
Hail to the size of quarters was reported at Conway Hospital.
Hail to the size of quarters was reported in the Carolina Forest subdivision.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Carolina in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in South Carolina, September 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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 348730, 348727, 348729.