North Carolina, 2001Flash Flood in North Carolina, June 27, 2001
June 27, 2001 · NWS GSP · 1 event in 1 county or zone
1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- $500,000
- 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 Jun 27, 8:44 PM EST, 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 8:44 PM EST, 1 minute before
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Local storm report, Jun 27, 4:25 PM EST, 4 hours 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
525 PM EDT WED JUN 27 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
512 PM LAURENS SC WIND DAMAGE
06/27/01 LAURENS TREE DOWN ON A HOUSE.
REPORTED BY COUNTY 911
CENTE\R.
MCAVOYLocal storm report, Jun 27, 4:46 PM EST, 3 hours 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
546 PM EDT WED JUN 27 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
514 PM LAURENS SC WIND DAMAGE
06/27/01 LAURENS ***INJURED 1, DEAD 0***
INJURY CAUSED BY TREE
FALLING ON HOUSE. SEVERAL
OTHER TREES AND POWER
LINES DOWN IN TOWN.
REPORTED BY EOC.
LAMBLocal storm report, Jun 27, 5:43 PM EST, 3 hours 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
643 PM EDT WED JUN 27 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
600 PM 3 E SPARTANBURG SC WIND DAMAGE
06/27/01 SPARTANBURG 2.5 FOOT DIAMETER TREE
BLOWN ONTO MOBILE
HOME...NESIGHBORING TREE
DOWNED ON BARN.
LAMBLocal storm report, Jun 27, 5:43 PM EST, 3 hours 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED LOCATION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
643 PM EDT WED JUN 27 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
600 PM 20 S SPARTANBURG SC WIND DAMAGE
06/27/01 SPARTANBURG 2.5 FOOT DIAMETER TREE
BLOWN ONTO MOBILE HOME.
NEIGHBORING TREE DOWNED
ON BARN...NEAR CROSS
ANCHOR.
LAMB/RBNFlash Flood, Madison
- When
- June 27, 8:45 PM EST to 11:30 PM EST
- Where
- Madison County, 5 mi N of Marshall
- Crop damage
- $500,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 35.858, -82.706 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Walnut Creek and other smaller creeks flooded. Five county roads were closed. 150 people were evacuated. 3 homes and 1 business damaged. People were trapped in their homes by the flood water.
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Washington, June 27, 2001$70 million · 1 in hail · 5 events
- Heat in Maryland, June 27 to 30, 20011 death · 14 events
- Heat in Texas, June 27, 20011 death · 1 event
- Rip Current in Florida, June 27, 20011 death · 1 event
- Flooding and Hail in Washington, June 27, 2001$4.0 million · 1 in hail · 6 events
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Georgia, June 27 to 30, 2001$1.3 million · 0.75 in hail · 7 events
- Tornado in Washington, June 27, 2001$100,000 · F1 · 1 event
- Damaging Winds in Washington, June 27, 20015 injured · $25,000 · 2 events
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Mississippi, June 27, 2001$67,000 · 1 in hail · 15 events
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 27, 2001$50,000 · 1 event
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 27, 2001$50,000 · 1 event
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, June 27, 2001$26,000 · 1.75 in hail · 10 events
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: 5254203.