Name: Damaging Wind in Georgia, June 29, 2002
Start: 2002-06-29T18:35
End: 2002-06-29T18:35
Location: Georgia

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 29, 2:23 PM EST, 4 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 2:23 PM EST, 4 hours 12 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
323 PM EDT SAT JUN 29 2002

RUNNING LATE AFTER BRIEF IFPS HICCUP...SO WILL KEEP THIS SHORT.
FOCUS OF CONVECTION NEXT FEW DAYS WILL REMAIN THE TROF THAT
IS NEARLY STATIONARY CLOSE TO OUR SOUTHERN BORDER COUNTIES...WITH
VERY LITTLE IN THE WAY OF UPPER TRIGGERS. WILL RELY MOSTLY ON
DAYTIME HEATING AND UPSLOPE...WHICH ALL MODELS DEVELOP BY LATE
SUNDAY...TO GET CONVECTION GOING IN THE AFTERNOON. ALL THREE SHORT
RANGE MODELS...INCLUDING THE NGM...HAVE A MOIST LAYER BELOW 800
MB...BUT ARE RELATIVELY DRY ALOFT. ALSO WEAK CAP ON FORECAST
SOUNDINGS...BUT HEATING MAY STILL ALLOW FOR CONVECTION IN AFTERNOON.
WILL GIVE POPS SUNDAY AND MONDAY TO ALL BUT OUR NORTHEAST CORNER
COUNTIES. TEMPERATURES GENERALLY 60 TO 65 MOUNTAINS...AND 65 TO 70
FOOTHILLS/PIEDMONT AT NITE AND 80 TO 85 NC MOUNTAINS...TO UPPER
80S/LOWER 90S ELSEWHERE.

NOT MUCH CHANGE TO UPPER PATTERN THROUGH LATE WEEK...WHEN NEXT COLD
FRONT ATTEMPTS TO DROP INTO THE REGION. WILL INCLUDE CHANCE OF
SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY...DRY SATURDAY.
TEMPEARTURES AT OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL THROUGH PERIOD.

FCSTID = 44
GSP   70  90  69  89 /  20  30  20  30
AND   70  91  69  90 /  20  30  20  30
CLT   69  90  68  89 /  20  20  20  30
HKY   68  88  66  87 /  10  20  20  20
AVL   63  85  63  84 /  20  30  20  30

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

BURRUS

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 98 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:34 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Hart

When: June 29, 6:35 PM EST
Where: Hart County, Bowersville
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 34.367, -83.083

Several large tree limbs were blown down.

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 Georgia in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Georgia, June 2002

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: 5305888.