Hail in Polk County, North Carolina

Hail May 10, 2018 · Polk County, North Carolina

0.75 in

Hail diameter

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Public reported penny sized hail along Highway 108 just east of Columbus.

The wider storm

Isolated to scattered thunderstorms developed across the Blue Ridge during the afternoon and moved into the Piedmont during the evening. Some of the storms produced severe weather in the form of large hail and locally damaging winds. Strong to severe supercell thunderstorms developed repeatedly and trained across portions of the foothills, particularly in Polk County, such that some locations received multiple periods of up to golf ball size hail.

Began near Columbus (35.2630, -82.1820).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 757104. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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