Name: Damaging Wind in South Carolina, June 3, 2001
Start: 2001-06-03T16:15
End: 2001-06-03T16:15
Location: South Carolina

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
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 Jun 3, 1:22 PM EST, 2 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 1:22 PM EST, 2 hours 53 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
222 PM EDT SUN JUN 3 2001

ELEVATED CONVECTION ACROSS NRN GA APPEARS TO BE MAKING GOOD PROGRESS
TOWARD UPSTATE.  DEWPOINTS REMAIN IN 50S OVER MAJOR PORTION OF FA
BUT SOUTHERN ZONES IN RICHER LOW/MID 60S DEW PT AIR.  BETTER
INSTABILITY SOUTH OF I85 SO IF STORMS SURVIVE TRIP THROUGH
DRIER...MORE STABLE AREAS...SHOULD SEE SOME INCREASED ACTIVITY IN
SRN ZONES LATER THIS EVENING.  FOR NOW... WILL PLACE 30 PERCENT IN
WESTERN COUNTIES FOR THE EVENING PERIOD.  WARM FRONT WILL CONTINUE
TO MOVE NORTH OVER MS VALLEY REGION AND EVENTUALLY ACROSS TN VALLEY
AND WRN CAROLINAS.  BY MONDAY MORNING...MUCH OF FA WILL BE WELL INTO
WARM SECTOR.  SCATTERED DIURNAL CONVECTION APPEARS TO BE THE
SCENARIO TO WATCH NEXT 3 DAYS WITH LITTLE IF ANY SHORT WAVE TROUGHS
TO PROVIDE MUCH LIFT.  LEFTOVER BOUNDARIES FROM DAILY CONVECTION
COULD PROVIDE FOCUS ANYWHERE IN FA.  SHOTGUNNED CHANCE POPS ACROSS
FA THROUGH WED.  ON THURSDAY...STRONG VORT MAX DIGS TROUGH TOWARD
WRN CAROLINAS.  MOISTURE FROM WIDE OPEN GULF WILL BE IN PLACE FOR
FRONT TO PRODUCE BETTER ORGANIZED LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS.  END OF
WEEK SHOULD BE DRY AND ONLY SLIGHTLY COOLER.                DELGADO

FCSTID = 11
GSP   63  88  67  87 /   0  40  40  40
AND   63  88  67  87 /   0  40  40  40
CLT   63  88  67  87 /   0  40  40  40
HKY   60  81  65  85 /   0  40  40  40
AVL   56  82  61  81 /  30  40  40  40

.GSP...
GA...NONE.
NC...NONE.
SC...NONE.

In the hours before

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The radar

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Laurens

When: June 3, 4:15 PM EST
Where: Laurens County, Cross Hill
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 34.300, -81.983

A couple of trees were blown down near Lake Greenwood.

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in South Carolina in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in South Carolina, June 2001

Sources

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: 5254662.