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 Jun 24, 8:55 PM EST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 955 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2001 FORECAST TRENDS GOOD SO FAR. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE PROPAGATING INTO MORE STABLE AIR AND BELIEVE THEY WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH AS WE GET CLOSER TO MIDNIGHT. PLENTY OF OUTFLOWS HAVE COME OUT OF STORMS THIS EVENING SO NEW DEVELOPMENT COULD POP UP MOST ANYWHERE OUTSIDE THE MOUNTAINS FOR A BRIEF PERIOD. MAIN ACTIVITY HOWEVER SHOULD REMAIN ALONG BEST CONVERGENCE AXIS FROM JUST EAST OF SPARTANBURG TO WEST OF STATESVILLE. I DO NOT PLAN TO UPDATE AT THIS TIME BUT MAY TOWARDS MIDNIGHT OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DIMINISH AS EXPECTED. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RBN
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
926 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
855 PM 6 NE GAFFNEY SC WIND DAMAGE
06/24/01 CHEROKEE FEW TREES REPORTED DOWN
BY EMERGENCY MANAGER...
ALSO MARBLE SIZE HAIL
REPORTED.
RBNPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1028 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY L5OCATION....
955 PM SHELBY NC 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/24/01 CLEVELAND GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY EOC.
RBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1106 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1100 PM SHELBY NC FLASH FLOOD
06/24/01 CLEVELAND EOC REPORTS STORM DRAINS
BLOCKED AND STREET
FLOODING...
RBThe Greer radar (KGSP), 58 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:15 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning blew a transformer at a manufacturing plant, shutting it down for more than 24 hours and keeping 1000 employees off the job.
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, June 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: 5255111.