Hail — Calhoun, South Carolina

2022-05-23 · near Hammond Xrds, Calhoun, South Carolina

Event narrative

Public reported hail that began as pea size and increased in size up to nickel to quarter size before ending. The location was along Big Beaver Creek Rd between I-26 and Old State Rd. Time estimated.

Wider weather episode

A large area of convection originating over south GA associated with a shortwave lifting northward out of the Gulf of Mexico moved into the CSRA and Midlands during the mid morning hours through early afternoon, moving northeastward through the area producing scattered wind damage mainly along and west of the I-20 corridor. A second round of severe convection occurred over parts of the central and eastern Midlands during the afternoon and early evening hours. First, discrete cells formed on the outflow boundary from the earlier convection in a moderate to strong instability environment with weak shear producing wind damage and some severe and sub-severe hail. A more organized multicellular cluster of storms moved northeastward across the region during the late afternoon hours producing isolated wind damage.

View location on OpenStreetMap → (33.7509, -80.9113)

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1016189. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.