South Carolina, 2001Tornado in South Carolina, June 9, 2001
June 9, 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
- 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
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NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 9, 1:59 PM EST, 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 1:59 PM EST, 16 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
259 PM EDT SAT JUN 9 2001
CONVECTION GENERALLY SOUTH OF THE CWFA THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW CELLS
IN/CLOSE TO SRN SECTIONS...SO WILL MENTION SLIGHT CHC THIS EVENING.
SOME LOW LEVEL MOISTURE SUNDAY...BUT EVEN ETA WHICH IS MORE MOIST
SHOWS MID LEVEL INVERSION. KEPT FCST PARTLY CLOUDY. MOISTURE A
LITTLE LESS MONDAY...BUT DEW POINTS ON THE RISE ON SWLY FLOW. ATMOS
BECOMES UNSTABLE SO SMALL CHC POPS.
FOR EXTENDED...RIDGE AXIS SETS UP TO OUR EAST. TEMPS WARM
DRAMATICALLY. ATMOS BECOMES MOIST AND UNSTABLE SO CHC POPS. CHC HIER
NEAR END OF EXTENDED WHEN FNT MOVES THRU.
GSP 62 85 63 87 / 20 10 10 30
AND 62 85 63 87 / 20 10 10 30
CLT 60 85 62 87 / 10 10 10 30
HKY 59 83 60 85 / 0 10 10 30
AVL 54 79 56 82 / 0 10 10 30
.GSP...
GA...NONE.
NC...NONE.
SC...NONE.
RWH
Tornado, Union
- When
- June 9, 2:15 PM EST to 2:35 PM EST
- Where
- Union County, 2 mi NW of Carlisle
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 0.2 yd
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 34.600, -81.483
Several eyewitnesses reported a tornado touching down during a thunderstorm that was effectively stationary for at least 15 minutes. Path of the tornado was mostly through the woods. Fire departmentfound 2 large oak trees with broken limbs. NWS storm survey team received 5 images of the tornado. The tornado was a well-defined vortex descending from an apparent small wall cloud. Radar presentation displayed a small thunderstorm, or moderate to heavy rain shower, with only a 30,000 foot top.
- 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.
- Hail in North Dakota, June 9, 2001$113 million · 2.75 in hail · 1 event
- Hail in North Dakota, June 9, 2001$113 million · 1.75 in hail · 1 event
- Lightning Strike in South Dakota, June 9, 20011 death · 1 injured · $1,000 · 1 event
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, June 9, 2001$3.0 million · 70 kt wind · 1 event
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, June 9, 20012 injured · $383,000 · 1 event
- Tornadoes and Hail in Michigan, June 9, 2001$90,000 · F1 · 13 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, June 9 to 10, 20012.5 in hail · 55 events
- Hail in North Dakota, June 9, 2001$100,000 · 2.75 in hail · 1 event
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, June 9, 2001$80,000 · F0 · 2 events
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, June 9, 2001$50,000 · F0 · 3 events
- Tornado in North Dakota, June 9, 20011 injured · F1 · 1 event
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, June 9, 2001$30,000 · F0 · 3 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: 5254664.