1 dust devil, 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 Apr 5, 10:18 AM EST, 57 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1018 AM EST FRI APR 5 2002 SOME STRATOCU DEVELOPING ACROSS OUR SOUTH CAROLINA/GEORGIA BORDER COUNTIES BUT SKIES CLEAR ELSEWHERE. FEW CHANGES FOR THE AFTERNOON UPDATE...MAINLY OPENING UP RANGE OF TEMPERATURE TO 60 TO 65 FOR UPSTATE PER LOW LEVEL THICKNESS SCHEME...LOWERING MAX TEMPERATURES FOR THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS TO AROUND 50 AND RAISING MOUNTAIN WINDS...AS BOTH NEWLAND...BEECH MOUNTAIN AND ASHEVILLE SHOW 10 TO 15 AT PRESENT. FCSTID = 44 GSP 62 35 60 34 / 0 0 0 0 AND 62 35 60 34 / 0 0 0 0 CLT 63 34 60 34 / 0 0 0 0 HKY 58 31 55 32 / 0 0 0 0 AVL 56 29 56 29 / 0 0 0 0 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...FREEZE WARNING TONIGHT FOR ZONES NCZ034...NCZ054>055. SC...NONE. BURRUS
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 dust devil. Local standard time, as filed.
A large dust devil damaged a 30 foot camper and a shed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, 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: 5293266.