1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Jul 8, 2:00 PM EST, 4 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 300 PM EDT SUN JUL 8 2001 PRIMARY FORECAST CONCERN THIS PACKAGE IS WHAT TO DO WITH DEVELOPING UPSTREAM MCS. CURRENTLY INTENSE CONVECTION IS FIRING ALONG H8 AREA OF CONVERGENCE...OVER SE OH/NRN KY. MODELS ARE NOT HANDLING THIS SYSTEM WELL AS THEY DON/T DEVELOP ANY ORGANIZED CONVECTION UNTIL AROUND 06Z (INTERESTINGLY ENUF...ABOUT WHERE CONVECTION IS NOW). I SUPPOSE THIS BATCH COULD DIE OUT...BUT WITH 30 KTS OF SHEAR AND GOES SOUNDER LIS OF -10 FEEDING IT...I HAVE MY DOUBTS. SO THE QUESTION IS...WHERE WL IT GO? LAST NGHTS MCS TRACKED JUST ABOUT ALONG THE -10 DEG C LINE AT H7. TNGT...THE -10 DEG TEMPS HAVE ALL BUT VANISHED AS THE WORKED OVER AIRMASS HAS LOST A LOT OF THE ELEVATED MIXED LAYER CHARACTERISTICS OF DAYS PAST. STILL...-8 DEG TEMP LINE LOOK GOOD TNGT...WHICH PRETTY MUCH TAKES IT RIGHT ACROSS THE CWA. BY LATE TNGT THE FLOW TURNS ALMOST DUE N...AND WEAKENS SOME...SO THE SYSTEM PROBABLY WILL NOT BE AS STRONG AS THE ONE LAST NGHT...BUT CERTAINLY CAN/T RULE OUT SOME STRONG WINDS AS THE MCS FIRST GETS HERE. THUS...PLAN TO MENTION SOME POSSIBLY SEVERE IN THE MTN ZONES. W/DIFFULENT THICKNESS PATTERN ALOFT...SOME TRAINING HEAVY RAIN ALSO POSSIBLE. WON/T ISSUE A FFA DUE TO SOME UNCERTAINTY ON TRACK OF MCS WL LOWER TEMPS ABOUT 5 TO 7 DEG TMRW TO ACCOUNT FOR DEBRIS LEFT OVER FROM MCS. IF ETA IS RIGHT...MORE CONVECTION MAY FIRE ABOUT DAWN OVER THE AREA. HOWEVER...SHEAR BECOMES MUCH WEAKER TMRW. AND WHAT SHEAR THERE IS...AN AXIS OF H7 25KT WNDS...RETROGRADE INTO CENTRAL TN AND NRN AL/GA IN RESPONSE TO HGHT FALLS OVER THE E. LOW CHANCE POPS MON NGHT AND TUE. W/ONLY WEAK NW FLOW...THESE WL LIKELY BE MORE OF THE TYPICAL SUMMERTIME DIURNALLY DRIVEN STUFF. NCEP CONTINUES TO ADVERTISE A RATHER SUBSTANTIAL FROPA EARLY WED. LATEST AVN LOOKS AWFULLY WEAK WITH THE FRONT...TO THE POINT THAT NW FLOW CONVECTION CONTINUES WED AND THU. HOWEVER...WL GO WITH NCEP IDEA AND IGNORE THE OUTLIER AVN. THUS...DRY WED-FRI...WITH CHANCE TSRA FRI NGHT-SUN AS SFC BNDRY LIFTS BACK INTO THE REGION. FCSTID = 14 GSP 71 87 72 92 /k 70 40 30 30 AND 71 87 72 92 / 70 40 30 30 CLT 71 87 72 92 / 60 40 30 30 HKY 70 87 71 90 / 70 40 30 30 AVL 65 82 65 87 / 80 40 30 30 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. MCAVOY
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
626 PM EDT SUN JUL 08 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
616 PM 10 E ASHEVILLE NC 81 MPH
07/08/01 BUNCOMBE REPORTED BY SPOTTER ON
FLAT TOP MTN.
605 PM PLEASANT GARDENS NC WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01 MCDOWELL TREE DOWN ACROSS US HWY
70. RELAYED BY WLOS-TV.
605 PM CLEAR CREEK NC WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01 MCDOWELL NUMEROUS TREES DOWN.
RELAYED BY WLOS-TV.
RWHPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
636 PM EDT SUN JUL 8 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
628 PM 6 W ASHEVILLE NC WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01 BUNCOMBE HAM REPORTS TWO TREES
DOWN ON WESTBOUND
INTERSTATE 40 AT MILE
MARKER 44. AT LEAST TWO
CARS WRECKED.
RWHPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
640 PM EDT SUN JUL 08 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
636 PM HOOPERS CREEK NC 68 MPH
07/08/01 HENDERSON SPOTTER REPORTED MEASURED
WIND GUST JUST EAST OF
AVL AI_RPORT.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees and power lines down in numerous locations. Two printing plants lost power for several hours as a result of lightning hitting transformers nearby.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Carolina in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in South Carolina, July 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5261229, 5261230.