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 Jul 2, 5:32 PM EST, 38 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
632 PM EDT TUE JUL 2 2002
CONVECTIVE CLUSTER TRAINING S OVER THE NRN NC MTNS AND FOOTHILLS
WILL WORK OVER ALREADY SATURATED GROUND THROUGH THE EARLY OVERNIGHT.
WILL TOSS OUT A FLOOD WATCH TO HEIGHTEN AWARENESS IN THIS AREA. NO
OTHER CHANGES TO ZONES EXCEPT HYDRO WORDING AND HIGHER POPS.
FCSTID = 33
GSP 72 93 71 92 / 40 30 30 30
AND 72 93 71 92 / 40 30 30 30
CLT 69 93 68 92 / 30 30 30 30
HKY 69 91 68 90 / 30 30 30 30
AVL 68 88 67 87 / 50 40 40 30
.GSP...
GA...NONE.
NC...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 400 AM WEDNESDAY FOR ZONES
NCZ033>034...NCZ049>050...NCZ054>055.
SC...NONE.
HGPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
623 PM EDT TUE JUL 02 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
616 PM 5 S BELTON SC .75 INCH HAIL
07/02/02 ANDERSON DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY HYDROLOGIST.
TJBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
633 PM EDT TUE JUL 02 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
620 PM 5 N BAKERSVILLE NC .75 INCH HAIL
07/02/02 MITCHELL SPOTTER REPORTED .5 TO
.75 HAIL
LANEPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
642 PM EDT TUE JUL 02 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
635 PM BRYSON CITY NC .75 INCH HAIL
07/02/02 SWAIN REPORTED BY SPOTTER
LANEPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
646 PM EDT TUE JUL 02 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
530 PM SPRING CREEK AREA NC .75 INCH HAIL
07/02/02 MADISON DIME SIZE HAIL AND POWER
OUTAGES REPORTED BY
MADISON EOC.
TJBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
654 PM EDT TUE JUL 02 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
645 PM BRYSON CITY NC WIND DAMAGE
07/02/02 SWAIN TREES BLOWN DOWN IN
BRYSON CITY BETWEEN 630
AND 645 PM. TAR PAPER
PEELED FROM ROOF OF
COMMERCIAL BUILDING.
TJBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
704 PM EDT TUE JUL 02 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
615 PM BELMONT NC WIND DAMAGE
07/02/02 GASTON TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN, SOME ON HOUSES
655 PM NEWLAND NC LIGHTNING
07/02/02 AVERY POWER OUTAGES AND
NUMEROUS LIGHTNING
STRIKES. CREEK ACROSS
ROAD IN NEWLAND BUT
SUBSIDING.
TJBThe Greer radar (KGSP), 59 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:10 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous trees were blown down. Two people were injured on the morning of the 3rd, when a large tree damaged by the storm fell.
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, July 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: 5310687.