1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Apr 28, 2:23 PM EST, 5 hours 57 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 323 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002 SUPERCELLULAR DEEP CONVECTION ACRS ERN TENN MOVING TOWARD NC MTNS ATTM IS THE PRIMARY CONCERN THRU EARLY EARLY EVENING...BUT THIS IS WELL COVERED WITH WW170 THRU 23Z. POTENTIAL FOR ADDITIONAL DEEP CONVECTION IS A LITTLE LESS CERTAIN...BUT SYNOPTIC SCALE FEATURES MENTIONED IN PRELIM DISC STILL LOOK FAVORABLE. WILL KEEP 12 HR 7P-7A POP IN SCATTERED/CHC RANGE FROM 50% W TO 30% E. WINDS STILL QUITE GUSTY ESP...ACRS THE MTNS/FTHLS...SO WILL HAVE LWA FOR THE EVENING HOURS. PRELIM DISC: AXIS OF HIGH THETA-E AIR & LLVL CONVERGENCE AXIS WILL BE SAGGING SE INTO THE CWFA THRU THIS EVENING. EVEN THOUGH THE GSP CWFA IS WELL SOUTH OF THE STRONG UPPER FORCING...THESE AFOREMENTIONED PARAMETERS...COMBINED WITH A STRONG & DEEP LAYERED VERTICAL WIND PROFILE & BULLSEYE OF UPPER LVL DIVERGENCE IN LEFT EXIT REGION OF 25H JET...ORGANIZED SVR TSTMS STILL A POSSIBILITY...WHETHER THEY ARE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVITY OUT AHEAD OF APPROACHING COLD FRONT OR ACTIVATED BY LEE TROUGH. AT THE MOMENT...PLAN ON MENTIONING SVR CHCS THIS EVENING IN ZFP FOR NC MTNS & MAY EXPAND THIS AREA EASTWARD AS THE AFTERNOON WEARS ON AS WE GET A BETTER HANDLE ON THINGS...OR WATCHES DICTATE THIS FOR US. POST FRONTAL AIRMASS & MIXING WORKS IN FROM WEST TO EAST OVERNIGHT & IT LOOKS LIKE BL FLOW WILL BE STRONG ENUF FOR FCST OF ONGOING GRADIENT WINDY CONDITIONS ACRS THE MTNS. THE SAME HOLDS TRUE FOR MONDAY & WILL CONFINE WINDY WORDING TO MTN ZONES. PRES GRADIENT LOOSENS IN THE AFTERNOON AS HIGH BLDS EAST THEN SETTLES OVER THE CWFA MONDAY NIGHT PROMOTING CLEAR AND CALM CONDITIONS. RETURN FLOW DEVELOPS QUICKLY DURING TUESDAY...BUT AT THIS POINT...WILL LEAN TOWARD LESS AGGRESSIVE ETA SOLUTION...KEEPING MEASURABLE PCPN WEST/SW OF CWFA UNTIL TUE NITE. HEIGHTS ACROSS THE ERN US WILL RISE ON DAY 3 IN RESPONSE TO S/WV ENERGY HEADING INTO THE NATIONS MID SECTION. AT THE SFC...WARM FRONT WILL LIFT NORTHWARD ACRS THE CWFA WITH WARM SECTOR WX FOR THURSDAY...ESPECIALLY WHEN FAVORING FURTHER N ECMWF POSITION OF SURFACE FRONT ON DAY 4. CONVERSELY...AS S/WV TRANSLATES ACRS THE EASTERN U.S. ON DAY 5...DRAGGING A COLD FRONT ACRS THE CWFA...TIMING OF THIS LOOKS TO BE LATER THAN GFS ENSEMBLES...BUT WILL NOT EXTEND POPS PAST FRIDAY. WITH UPPER RIDGING BUILDING OFF TO OUR WEST THIS WEEKEND...A PREDOMINATELY DRY NW FLOW WILL RESULT ACRS THE EASTERN US. MODELS INDICATING SOME ATLANTIC RH RETURNING ON EASTERLY LLVL FLOW...BUT WILL CONTINUE TO KEEP DAY 6-7 DRY. FCSTID = 55 GSP 58 79 51 80 / 20 0 0 10 AND 59 80 52 81 / 20 0 0 10 CLT 59 78 50 80 / 20 0 0 10 HKY 56 76 48 78 / 20 0 0 10 AVL 52 73 45 76 / 40 0 0 10 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
636 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
628 PM 9 NE MOCKSVILLE NC .75 INCH HAIL
04/28/02 DAVIE DIME SIZED HAIL NEAR
HILLSDALE COMMUNITY.
633 PM BULADEAN NC .50 INCH HAIL
04/28/02 MITCHELL HALF INCH HAIL REPORTED
BY FIRE DEPARTMENT
MOOREPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
650 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
647 PM NEWLAND NC .75 INCH HAIL
04/28/02 AVERY 911 CENTER REPORTED DIME
SIZED HAIL FALLING IN
DOWNTOWN NEWLAND.
BURRUSPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
704 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
655 PM 4 NE NEWLAND NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/28/02 AVERY 2 SEPERATE REPORTS OF
HAIL AS LARGE AS QUARTERS
FROM THE SAME
AREA...BETWEEN LINVILLE
AND GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN.
REPORTS FROM TRAINED NWS
SPOTTERS.
BURRUSPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
720 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
700 PM 7 E NEWLAND NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/28/02 AVERY REPORTED BY SPOTTER
HANDELPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
908 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
906 PM 5 N TOCCOA GA 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/28/02 STEPHENS SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTED
GOLFBALL-SIZED HAIL ALONG
HIGHWAY 17 ALTERNATE.
BURRUSThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous trees and power lines were reported down near Lake Hartwell. At least one tree fell onto a house.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Georgia in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, April 2002
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: 5293255, 5293256, 5293257.