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 May 7, 1:17 PM EST, 6 hours 3 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 217 PM EDT TUE MAY 7 2002 FLATTENED UPPER RIDGE REMAINS OVER FCST AREA WITH WEAK SHRTWVS MOVG THRU FLOW...MAINLY N OF CWA. SFC BOUNDARY WELL N OF AREA OVER OH VALLEY. LATEST GUIDANCE HAS LOWERED POPS THRU THU. WILL KEEP LOW CHANCE POPS IN NC ZONES THRU WED...A BREAK INDICATED WED NIGHT...THEN AS FRONT MOVES FURTHER S OVER AREA...CHANCE SHOWERS AND TSTMS ACROSS ENTIRE CWA THU AND FRI. TEMPS AND WINDS STILL LOOK GOOD WITH ONLY MINOR TWEAKING DONE SINCE LAST ZONE PKG. DAYS 4-7 WILL START OFF SLIGHTLY COOLER THAN NORMAL...AS SURFACE HIGH SETTLES OVER THE AREA IN WAKE OF EXITING FRONT...AND MID LEVEL RIDGE FLATTENS. BY LATE SUNDAY...RIDGE BEGINS TO REASSERT ITSELF ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST...BUT SW TROUGH DIGGING INTO THE UPPER MIDWEST WILL PUSH ANOTHER FRONTAL BOUNDARY INTO THE AREA BY EARLY WEEK. HAVE EXTENDED POPS INTO MONDAY NIGHT...PER HPC PREFERENCE OF SLOWER FRONTAL MOVEMENT THAN ADVERTISED BY MODELS...BUT WILL LEAVE TUESDAY DRY FOR NOW. FCSTID =77 GSP 64 88 63 86 / 20 20 20 30 AND 65 89 64 87 / 20 20 20 30 CLT 63 87 62 85 / 20 20 20 30 HKY 62 85 62 84 / 30 20 30 30 AVL 57 82 56 79 / 30 20 30 40 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RB
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
613 PM EDT TUE MAY 07 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
605 PM 10 NE FOREST CITY NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/07/02 RUTHERFORDTON EOC REPORT.
JATPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
632 PM EDT TUE MAY 07 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
624 PM 17 N SHELBY NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/07/02 CLEVELAND SPOTTER REPORT.
625 PM 12 NW SHEBLY NC 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/07/02 CLEVELAND EOC REPORT.
625 PM 12 NW SHELBY NC 70 MPH
05/07/02 CLEVELAND EOC REPORT.
JATPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
646 PM EDT TUE MAY 07 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
640 PM TAYLORSVILLE NC 58 MPH
05/07/02 ALEXANDER SPOTTER REPORT.
JATPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
716 PM EDT TUE MAY 07 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
637 PM 8 N SHELBY NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/07/02 CLEVELAND DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND
GUSTS ESTIMATED AT 50 MPH
BETWEEN SHELBY AND CASAR.
REPORTED BY SKYWARN
SPOTTER.
639 PM 12 NW SHELBY NC 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/07/02 CLEVELAND GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL
FALLING AGAIN NEAR
POLKVILLE COMMUNITY.
REPORTED BY SKYWARN
SPOTTER.
MOOREThe Roanoke radar (KFCX), 151 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:19 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A garage along River Road was moved off of its foundation, and its tin roof was blown for a distance of 300 yards. A large iron wheel was blown a distance of 50 yards. Numerous trees were also blown down.
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, May 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: 5298087.