1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 Sep 23, 2:07 PM EST, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 300 EDT SUN SEP 23 2001 SEVERAL DIFFERENT FORCING MECHANISMS WILL AFFECT THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA DURING THE NEXT TWO DAYS. A LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE AXIS SETTING UP ACROSS THE PIEDMONT...WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE UPPER 60S TO AROUND 70...WILL KEEP SCATTERED CONVECTION GOING THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. A VORT MAX EJECTING ENE FROM THE BASE OF THE LONGWAVE TROUGH TONIGHT WILL COMBINE WITH INCREASING UPPER DIVERGENCE IN THE JETLET ENTRANCE REGION ALOFT TO GENERATE ADDITIONAL OMEGA OVERNIGHT. ALL OF THIS COINCIDES WITH THE STEADILY DEEPENING MOISTURE SEEN ON TIME SECTIONS. WILL NEED LIKELY POPS FOR MAINLY AFTER MIDNIGHT WITH LOWEST CHC NW PIEDMONT. FRONTAL BAND WILL WORK SWIFTLY ACROSS THE REGION DURING THE DAY TOMORROW WITH A STRONG PUSH 18Z TO 00Z WITH THE MAIN VORT. LACK OF HEATING WILL LIMIT INSTABILITY SOMEWHAT...BUT HIGH SFC DEWPOINTS AND DYNAMICAL FORCING MAY KEEP STRONG CONVECTION GOING WITH THE FRONT. SHEAR PROFILES LOOK QUITE INTERESTING ON THE AVN...WHILE ETA WIND SPEEDS ARE SOMEWHAT LESS. DRYING ENSUES MON EVENING FOR ALL BUT NW FLOW UPSLOPE PREFERRED NC MTN AREAS WHERE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE POOL WRAPS BACK IN TO KEEP CHC OF SHOWERS GOING. 850 MB ZERO ISOTHERM FLIRTS WITH THE NRN MTNS...BUT MAIN COLD POOL STAYS NW OF REGION...AND IT IS CLIMATOLOGICALLY VERY EARLY FOR NW FLOW MOUNTAIN SNOWS. WILL ADVERTISE SOME UPPER 30S TEMPS HOWEVER TO GO WITH LINGERING RAIN SHOWERS IN THE NRN MTNS. ADDITIONAL VORTS SWING SOUTHWARD DOWN BACKSIDE OF MEAN TROUGH...BUT WITH LITTLE MOISTURE TO WORK WITH. WILL KEEP EXTENDED FORECAST DRY AND RELATIVELY COOL THROUGH SUNDAY. FCSTID = 33 GSP 68 75 55 66 / 70 80 10 0 AND 69 75 55 66 / 70 80 10 0 CLT 67 76 57 65 / 60 80 30 0 HKY 65 72 52 62 / 70 80 10 0 AVL 63 68 46 59 / 70 90 30 10 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. HG
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
445 PM EDT SUN SEP 23 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
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440 PM MAULDIN SC .75 INCH HAIL
09/23/01 GREENVILLE MAULDIN PD REPORTED DIME
HAIL AND STRONG WINDS.
NO REPORTS DAMAGE YET.
JONESThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees blown down, and bark ripped off of trees, at Lake Lyman. Some power lines and power outages resulted. Also, an off-duty NWS employee in Campobello reported marble-sized hail and estimated winds of 55 to 60 mph.
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, September 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: 5267625, 5267626.