1 drought, 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 Dec 31, 9:43 PM EST, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 943 PM EST MON DEC 31 2001 CLOUDS CLEARING CWA ATTM AND TEMPS FALLING AS EXPECTED. WILL UPDATE CLOUD WORDING. DEW POINTS ARE VERY LOW AND MAY TWEAK TEMPS DOWN A LITTLE IN SOME AREAS. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RB
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Groundwater depletion from the long-term drought caused streams and wells, which people depended on for generations, to dry up.
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, January 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: 5282659.