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 3, 2:45 PM EST, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 345 PM EDT WED JUL 3 2002 WATCH BOX IS FILLING IN NICELY WITH CONVECTION ATTM. WENT CAT POPS MTNS...LIKELY FOOTHILLS AND CHANCE IN THE PIEDMONT FOR THIS EVENING. CONVECTION IS DEVELOPING IN AN AREA OF LLVL MOISTURE CONVERGENCE WHICH EXTENDS FROM CENTRAL VA SW TO THE UPSTATE. THIS IS IN RESPONSE TO UPPER LOW OVER EASTERN NC WHICH HAS HELPED TO SHARPEN SFC TROF OVER THE REGION. SUSPECT THAT CONVECTION OVER VA WL CONTINUE TO FILL IN ALONG THE LEE TROF AND EVENTUALLY START MOVING MORE RAPIDLY TO THE SW AS H5 WINDS INCREASE AT LITTLE BY 00 UTC. EVEN IF THE MCS SCENARIO DOES NOT PAN OUT...CONVECTION FIRED FOR SEVERAL HOURS LAST NGHT ON OUTFLOW BNDRYS...AND EXPECT SIMILAR BEHAVIOR TNGT. JULY 4TH REALLY DOESN/T LOOK MUCH DIFFERENT FROM TDA. WL START W/40 POPS IN THE MTNS AND THE FOOTHILLS AND 30S FARTHER EAST...BUT WOULDN/T BE SURPRISED IF WE HAVE TO UP THE POPS AGAIN IN THE AFTN. ON FRI SFC FRONT WL FALL ACROSS THE NRN HALF OF THE CWA. UPPER SUPPORT IS STILL WEAK...AND WE ARE UNDER NVA UNTIL THE EARLY EVENING...BUT MOISTURE POOLING ALONG THE FRONT SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT FOR MORE SCT TSRA. EXTENDED... SUN...AVN KEEPS SFC BOUNDARY WITHIN THE CWA WITH SUBZERO LIS AND HOT AND HUMID AIRMASS IN PLACE. BELIEVE THAT THERE WILL BE SOME TS IN THE CWA BUT QUESTION REMAINS ABOUT FRONTAL PLACEMENT AS AVN IS CHANGING WITH EACH RUN. HEIGHTS FALL ON MON BRINGING SOME UPPER SUPPORT AND WILL INTRODUCE CHC POPS FOR CONVECTION. TUES FROPA BEGINS TO TAKE PLACE WITH AVN BACKING OFF OF CAA IT WAS ADVERTISING ON THE 02.00Z RUN. FRONT HAS A HARD TIME MOVING SOUTH AND IS STILL IN THE AREA WED AND WILL EXTEND POPS INTO WEDS. LITTLE CHANGE IN TEMPS WILL TREND WED TEMPS DOWN A CLICK FROM TUES VALUES. FCSTID = GSP 70 93 70 93 / 50 30 30 30 AND 70 93 70 93 / 40 30 30 30 CLT 67 93 68 93 / 50 30 30 40 HKY 68 91 69 92 / 60 30 30 40 AVL 66 87 66 89 / 80 40 40 40 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. MCAVOY/NED
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
635 PM EDT WED JUL 03 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
555 PM 10 NE LAURENS SC WIND DAMAGE
07/03/02 LAURENS SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTED
NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ON
FLEMMING MILL ROAD.
ALSO...NUMEROUS TRAFFIC
SIGNALS OUT IN THE CITY
OF LAURENS.
BURRUSPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
639 PM EDT WED JUL 03 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
625 PM MECKLENBURG SC .75 INCH HAIL
07/03/02 MECKLENBURG REPORTED BY SKYWARN
SPOTTER.
MCAVOYPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
643 PM EDT WED JUL 03 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
620 PM 8 N SHELBY NC WIND DAMAGE
07/03/02 CLEVELAND SPOTTER REPORTS NUMEROUS
TREES DOWN
DEOPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
649 PM EDT WED JUL 03 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
647 PM FOUNTAIN INN SC .75 INCH HAIL
07/03/02 GREENVILLE DIME HAIL REPORTED BY
SKYWARN SPOTTER.
LAMBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
706 PM EDT WED JUL 03 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
655 PM BOILING SPRINGS SC WIND DAMAGE
07/03/02 SPARTANBURG PUBLIC REPORTED POSS.
FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR
INTERSECTION I26 & HWY 9.
MODERATE DAMAGE TO HOUSE
ROOF.
701 PM GREENVILLE SC .75 INCH HAIL
07/03/02 GREENVILLE DIME HAIL AT INTSCT OF
PELHAM AND HUDSON RD. 15
MPH WIND. SPOTTER REPORT.
702 PM DONALDS SC .88 INCH HAIL
07/03/02 ABBEVILLE DIME TO NICKEL HAIL IN
DONALDS REPORTED BY
SPOTTER.
LAMBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
723 PM EDT WED JUL 03 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
715 PM COUNTYWIDE NC WIND DAMAGE
07/03/02 CLEVELAND TREES DOWN ALL OVER
COUNTY AND NUMEROUS BRUSH
FIRES CAUSED BY
LIGHTNING. REPORTED BY
F.D.
720 PM 11 N LINCOLNTON NC .75 INCH HAIL
07/03/02 LINCOLN DIME HAIL 11 N OF LINCOLN
COUNTY COURTHOUSE.
REPORTED BY SKYWARN
SPOTTER.
LAMBThe Greer radar (KGSP), 52 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:39 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous trees and powerlines were blown down. One tree fell on a house. A vehicle collided with a tree that had fallen on Highway 120.
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: 5310795.