1 heat, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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 8, 4:30 PM EST, 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 530 PM EDT WED AUG 8 2001 LATEST MSAS ANALYSIS SHOWS LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE IN THE CLT AREA. SHOWERS AND TSTMS MOVING IN FROM THE EAST. UPDATING ZONES WITHIN 10 MINS TO INCLUDE CHANCE POPS IN METRO AREA THROUGH MIDNIGHT. GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. DICARLO
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
A 19-year old playing basketball in a non air-conditioned gymnasium collapsed from heat. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital in Morganton.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heat, Burke | 2001-08-08 | 19 | Male | Long Span Roof | Direct |
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: 5266769.