The effects of the long-term drought became more severe. Some rivers and streams reached all-time record low levels.
Every event with a place to put it; 6 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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.
The effects of the long-term drought became more severe. Some rivers and streams reached all-time record low levels.
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 Jul 31, 8:55 PM EST, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 955 PM EDT TUE JUL 31 2001 SHORT WAVE TROUGH PUSHING THROUGH WRN VA/NC PROVIDED ENOUGH SUPPORT FOR WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE SRN MOUNTAINS OF NC AND INTO THE SC MOUNTAINS IN OCONEE AND PICKENS COUNTIES. LOW LEVEL UPSLOPE FLOW KEPT A FEW WELL ANCHORED LONG ENOUGH TO PRODUCE RADAR ESTIMATES OF OVER 3 INCHES IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY. HOWEVER...THERE WERE NO REPORTS OF FLOODING. MOST CONVECTION IS FINISHED FOR THE EVENING AS UPPER SUPPORT MOVES OVERHEAD AND OUT OF AREA. WILL UPDATE TO DROP OVERNIGHT POPS. MIGHT NEED TO ADJUST A COUPLE OF TEMPERATURES BUT NO OTHER BIG CHANGES NEEDED. DELGADO .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
6 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
The effects of the long-term drought became more severe. Some rivers and streams reached all-time record low levels.
The effects of the long-term drought became more severe. Some rivers and streams reached all-time record low levels.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Georgia in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, August 2001
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: 5266912, 5266913, 5266914, 5266915, 5266916, 5266917.