North Carolina, 2001Tornado in North Carolina, July 4, 2001
July 4, 2001 · NWS GSP · 1 event in 1 county or zone
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $16,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What forecasters said that day
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 4, 2:30 PM EST, 5 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 2:30 PM EST, 5 hours 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
330 PM EDT WED JUL 4 2001
CONVECTION MAINLY SCATTERED OVER CWFA FOR NOW. SHORT WAVE MOVING
THRU UPPER TROF HELPING TO SET UP SQUALL LINE TO OUR NORTHWEST. THIS
LINE WILL MOVE INTO THE MTNS BY EVENING. SVR TSRA POSSIBLE WITH THE
LINE. OTHER STRONG CONVECTION FORMING ALONG LEE TROF OVER FOOTHILLS.
ISOLATED SVR TSRA POSSIBLE HERE AS WELL. WILL USE AT LEAST LIKELY
POPS ALL AREAS THIS EVENING AS CONVECTION WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS.
ATMOS DRIES OUT A LITTLE WITH WLY FLOW THU. HOWEVER ANOTHER SHORT
WAVE/THERMAL TROF AND SFC FNT MOVE THRU. SCT AFT CONVECTION
POSSIBLE...BUT MUCH LESS COVERAGE THAN TODAY. 30 POP SHOULD SUFFICE.
HIGHS VARY ONLY A LITTLE AS LOW LEVEL THICKNESSES REMAIN NEARLY THE
SAME. HOWEVER LOWS THU AND FRI NITES SHOULD BE LOWER GIVEN CLEAR
SKIES AND LOWER DEW POINTS.
GSP 70 89 65 90 / 50 30 0 0
AND 70 89 65 90 / 50 30 0 0
CLT 70 89 65 88 / 50 30 0 0
HKY 67 87 63 87 / 50 30 0 0
AVL 65 86 60 85 / 50 30 0 0
.GSP...
GA...NONE.
NC...NONE.
SC...NONE.
RWH
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 4, 5:19 PM EST, 2 hours 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
619 PM EDT WED JUL 04 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
610 PM RUTHERFORDTON NC WIND DAMAGE
07/04/01 RUTHERFORD COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS
REPORTED TREES BLOWN DOWN
IN/ RUTHERFORDTON AND ALSO
ONE IN LAKE LURE.
JONESLocal storm report, Jul 4, 5:35 PM EST, 2 hours 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
635 PM EDT WED JUL 04 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
625 PM FOREST CITY NC WIND DAMAGE
07/04/01 RUTHERFORD NUMEROUS TREES AND LINES
DOWN. POWER POLES
SNAPPED IN HALF. CAR
POSSIBLY TRAPPED UNDER
LINES. URBAN FLOODING.
JONESLocal storm report, Jul 4, 5:51 PM EST, 1 hour 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
651 PM EDT WED JUL 04 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
647 PM 6 N ASHEVILLE NC NON TSTM WINDS
07/04/01 BUNCOMBE EOC REPORTED TREES DOWN
IN WEAVERVILLE.
JATLocal storm report, Jul 4, 6:06 PM EST, 1 hour 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
706 PM EDT WED JUL 04 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
630 PM KEOWEE KEY SC WIND DAMAGE
07/04/01 OCONEE DAMAGING WINDS OCCURRED
IN EASTERN HALF OF COUNTY
FROM ABOUT 615 PM TO 645
PM. NUMEROUS TREES AND
LINES DOWN.
JONESSpecial weather statement, Jul 4, 6:35 PM EST, 1 hour 3 minutes before
NCZ033>035-048>055-058-059-062>065-050030-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
735 PM EDT WED JUL 4 2001
THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH NUMBER 508...
IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA...
ALEXANDER.
IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA...
JACKSON...MACON...CALDWELL...SWAIN...MADISON...HAYWOOD...MITCHELL...
MCDOWELL...AVERY...GRAHAM...YANCEY...TRANSYLVANIA...BUNCOMBE...
HENDERSON AND BURKE.
THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED OUT OF THESE COUNTIES.
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Local storm report, Jul 4, 7:35 PM EST, 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
835 PM EDT WED JUL 04 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LO5CATION....
817 PM 14 E ANDERSON SC 58 MPH
07/04/01 ANDERSON SPOTTER MEASURED WIND.
JATTornado, Union
- When
- July 4, 7:38 PM EST
- Where
- Union County, 8 mi NE of Monroe
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 0.1 yd
- Property damage
- $16,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 35.067, -80.467
A "gustnado" formed along a gust front ahead of a line of thunderstorms. The small tornado destroyed a 70 X 70 barn by lifting its roof and carrying it 100 yards and dropping it to the ground. A refrigerator inside the barn had its door removed and a large post, buried three feet into the ground, was pulled out and carried about 100 yards. The vortex lifted briefly, then carved a 10-foot wide path through soybean fields.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
- Heat and Drought in Oklahoma, July 4 to 31, 20018 deaths · 96 events
- Hail in Nebraska, July 4, 200112 injured · $50 million · 3 in hail · 1 event
- High Surf in Puerto Rico, July 4, 20011 death · 1 event
- Damaging Wind in Utah, July 4, 20011 death · 50 kt wind · 1 event
- Heat in Illinois, July 4, 20011 death · 1 event
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in South Carolina, July 4, 2001$1.5 million · 50 kt wind · 2 events
- Tornado in Kentucky, July 4, 2001$350,000 · F1 · 1 event
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 4, 20011 injured · $277,000 · 0.75 in hail · 12 events
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Virginia, July 4, 2001$400,000 · 4 events
- Hail in Nebraska, July 4, 2001$120,000 · 2.5 in hail · 20 events
- Flash Flood and Hail in Kentucky, July 4, 2001$120,000 · 2.75 in hail · 15 events
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 4, 20018 injured · $1,000 · 1 event
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: 5261061.