1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 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 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 Aug 7, 2:32 PM EST, 3 hours 58 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 332 PM EDT TUE AUG 7 2001 NOT MUCH CHANGE IN THE OVERALL PATTERN THROUGH THURSDAY. MID LEVEL TEMPERATURES ACTUALLY PROGD TO RISE A BIT MORE ON WEDNESDAY...BUT TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 90S OUTSIDE OF HIGHER TERRAIN AREAS SHOULD BE ABLE TO OVERCOME ANY CAP THAT DOES DEVELOP. MEANWHILE...MOISTURE REMAINS LIMITED TO JUST LOWEST LAYERS. HEAT INDICIES WILL APPROACH ADVISORY CRITERIA IN SOME OF THE FORECAST AREA WEDNESDAY...ESPECIALLY SOUTH...BUT THOSE LEVELS MAY NOT BE REACHED FOR THE DURATION NECESSARY FOR ADVISORY CRITERIA. MAY USE A HEADLINE FOR UPSTATE/NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND NORTH CAROLINA PIEDMONT ZONES FOR WEDNEDSAY. FRONT...AND REMNANT MOISTURE FROM BARRY...GET EVER CLOSER ON THURSDAY...WITH FRONT CROSSING CWFA THIS WEEKEND. HAVE FEATURED A COOLING TREND BEGINNING FRIDAY...WITH INCREASING CLOUDINESS. CONTINUED CHANCE POPS THROUGH MONDAY...ALTHOUGH FOCUS OF CONVECTION SHOULD SHIFT TO UPSTATE/SOUTHERN ZONES BY THE END OF THE WEEKEND...WITH LESSER CHANCES IN THE NORTH. AT THIS JUNCTURE...TUESDAY DRY BASED ON NCEP MANUAL PROGS. FCSTID = 44 GSP 71 94 71 92 / 10 30 10 30 AND 71 95 71 93 / 10 30 10 30 CLT 70 95 71 92 / 10 30 10 30 HKY 67 90 67 88 / 10 30 10 30 AVL 68 89 68 87 / 20 30 20 40 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. BURRUS
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Scott Creek came out of its banks during slow-moving thunderstorms, flooding Skyline Drive.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, 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: 5265963.