1 lightning, 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 4, 1:30 PM EST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 230 PM EDT THU JUL 4 2002 DEEP RIDGE CONTINUES TO THE N OF THE CWFA. A NE-SW ORIENTED COLD TROF...UNDER THE RIDGE...REMAINS SITUATED OVER THE CWFA. THE UPPER TROF HAS MOVED JUST A LITTLE BIT FARTHER TO THE SOUTH. THIS HAS PLACED THE AXIS OF THE BEST SURFACE CONVERGENCE...AND SFC MOISTURE FLUX DIV...A LITTLE FARTHER S TDA AS WELL. WHILE FOR THE PAST THREE DAYS THIS AXIS WAS CENTERED OVER THE MTNS...TDA IT RUNS FROM GSO TO GLT TO GRD. ATMOSPHERE CONTINUES TO BE VERY UNSTABLE. THE LATEST GOES SOUNDER DATA SHOWS THAT LI/S ARE RUNNING -7 TO -8 OVER THE ERN HALF OF THE CWA...W/MICROBURST POTENTIAL RUNNING BETWEEN 50 AND 60 KTS. WOULD EXPECT THAT CONVECTION WOULD BE MOST NUMEROUS OVER THE ERN CWA THIS EVENING. HOWEVER...WL MAKE FINAL POP DECISION SHORTLY BEFORE ZONES GO OUT. ETA INDICATES THAT H5 TEMPS WARM QUITE A BIT BY FRI AFTN. FOR MOST OF THE DAY...THE BEST SFC CONVERGENCE WL BE EVEN FARTHER S THAN TDA. HOWEVER...AFTER ABOUT 21Z...PRESSURES FALL OVER THE ERN CWA W/BEST SFC CONVERGENCE SETTING UP OVER THE I-85 CORRIDOR AGAIN AHEAD OF APPROACHING BACK DOOR FRONT. THUS...CONVECTION SHOULD GET OFF TO A LATER START TMRW...BUT THERE SHOULD BE SCT TSRA ACROSS MOST OF THE CWFA BY LATE AFTN. WL KEEP POPS IN THE UPSTATE SAT...BUT REMOVE THEM FROM THE REST OF THE CWA AS SFC FRONT WL BE THROUGH MOST OF THE REGION. EXTENDED FEATURES UPPER TROUGH OVER EASTERN USA. SURFACE RIDGE EXITING E COAST MON/TUE. COLD FRONT MOVES S INTO AREA WED...THEN S OF AREA THU...WHERE IT STALLS. HAVE CHANCE DIURNAL CONVECTION MON/TUE...THEN RUN POPS THROUGH WED NIGHT WITH FRONTAL PASSAGE. LEFT POPS IN THU/FRI AS MOISTURE LINGERS...AND UPSLOPE COMPONENT POSSIBLE IN NE FLOW BEHIND FRONT. TEMPERATURES COOLER WED WITH CLOUDS INCREASING...THEN MODERATING THU WITH LESS CLOUD. FCSTID = GSP 68 94 70 88 / 40 30 30 30 AND 68 94 70 88 / 40 30 30 30 CLT 68 94 70 88 / 50 30 30 30 HKY 66 92 68 85 / 40 40 30 20 AVL 61 87 64 81 / 50 40 30 20 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. MCAVOY/07
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
233 PM EDT THU JUL 04 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
220 PM 3 N HARRISBURG NC .88 INCH HAIL
07/04/02 MECKLENBURG SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTED
NICKEL HAIL ON HWY 49.
LAMBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED COUNTY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
233 PM EDT THU JUL 04 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
220 PM 3 N HARRISBURG NC .88 INCH HAIL
07/04/02 CABARRUS SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTED
NICKEL HAIL ON HWY 49.
LAMBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
343 PM EDT THU JUL 04 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
320 PM MATTHEWS NC .75 INCH HAIL
07/04/02 MECKLENBURG SKYWARN HAM REPORTED DIME
SIZE HAIL FOR SEVERAL
MINUTES.
330 PM CHARLOTTE NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
07/04/02 MECKLENBURG WSOC REPORTED QUARTER
SIZE HAIL AND ESTIMATED
GUST OVER 60 MPH IN SOUTH
CHARLOTTE.
LAMBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
440 PM EDT THU JUL 04 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
415 PM MARSHALL NC WIND DAMAGE
07/04/02 MADISON SEVERAL TREES DOWN AT
INTSCN OF HWY 19 AND MAIN
ST. REPORT BY DEPUTY.
LAMBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
453 PM EDT THU JUL 04 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
335 PM WEDDINGTON NC WIND DAMAGE
07/04/02 UNION NUMEROUS TREES DOWN IN
WEDDINGTON AND W UNION
COUNTY. ALSO NICKEL SIZE
HAIL. REPORTED BY UNION
EOC.
LAMBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
556 PM EDT THU JUL 04 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
552 PM 5 N MOCKSVILLE NC .88 INCH HAIL
07/04/02 DAVIE DIME AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY TRAINED
SPOTTER.
LAMBThe Greer radar (KGSP), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:00 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning caused a minor injury at a baseball field. Lightning was also blamed for the loss of equipment at a radio station.
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: 5309537.