2 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Raleigh, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 4, 1:20 PM EST, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 220 PM EDT THU JUL 4 2002 PERSISTENCE FORECAST FOR FRIDAY. HEAT ADVISORY IS A FIRST PERIOD FORECAST PRODUCT SO WILL DEFER TO THE MIDNIGHT SHIFT FOR FRIDAY HEAT. MODELS ARE AGAIN ALL OVER THE PLACE IN THE DETAILS. AVIATION TAKES MCC VORTICITY OVER NORTH DAKOTA CURRENTLY AND DRIVES IT TO OUR NORTH BORDER BY SUNRISE SATURDAY. ETA DEVELOPS SURFACE LOW AND DEEPENS IT AS IT RETROGRADES SOUTHWEST FRIDAY. IN COMBINATION WITH ALLEGED EXPLOSION OF DIVERGENCE AT 200 MB 00Z SATURDAY...ETA READY TO SUCK THE WORMS OUT OF THE GROUND WITH LIFT. NGM TAKES SURFACE LIFT 00Z SATURDAY MORE TO COAST WITH UPPER DIVERGENCE OVER ASHEVILLE. MODELS WILL BE TRASHED FOR PERSISTENCE FRIDAY. WITH ETA SURFACE LOW TIGHTENING GRADIENT LATE FRIDAY IT IS FASTER PULLING THE COOL AIR IN FRIDAY NIGHT. FAVOR SLOWER NGM FOR NOW BUT COOLER AIR WILL STILL BEGIN TO REACH TO SOUTH BORDER BEFORE SUNRISE SATURDAY. LOWS TONIGHT UP SLIGHTLY FROM THIS MORNING. A DIP SATURDAY MORNING...MORE PRONOUNCED TO THE NORTH. IN THE EXTENDED...A SLOW WARMING TREND INTO THE EARLY WORK WEEK AND WILL ADD TINY CHANCE FOR AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS TO TUESDAY. STRONG FRONT FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR FORECAST WEDNESDAY. THIS WILL LIKELY BE TOO EARLY AND TOO COOL WHEN/IF IT DOES ARRIVE. WILL STAY ON THE WARM SIDE AND CONTINUE TO CONFINE RAIN CHANCES TO THE AFTERNOON INTO THURSDAY. .RAH...NONE... RLH
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH, NC
343 PM EDT THU JUL 4 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0340 PM NORTHWEST GREENSBORO NC .75 INCH HAIL
07/04/02 GUILFORDPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH, NC
350 PM EDT THU JUL 4 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0340 PM NORTHWEST GREENSBORO NC .75 INCH HAIL
07/04/02 GUILFORD
0350 PM GREENSBORO NC .75 INCH HAIL
07/04/02 GUILFORD I-40 AND WENDOVER AVPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH, NC
522 PM EDT THU JUL 4 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0405 PM GREENSBORO NC .75 INCH HAIL
07/04/02 GUILFORD
0410 PM NORTHWEST GREENSBORO NC WIND DAMAGE
07/04/02 GUILFORD TREES DOWN ON BUNCH ROAD
AND ON STANLEYVILLE ROAD.
DGSThe Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 92 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:11 UTC.
2 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Three people suffered minor injuries when lightning struck nearby at a campground.
A barn on High Rock Road was destroyed by a lightning strike. Three cows in the barn were killed.
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: 5303675, 5303674.