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 Aug 25, 12:52 PM EST, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 152 PM EDT SUN AUG 25 2002 AN UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE TROF FCST TO DIG OVER THE SE US IS EXPECTED TO STALL VCNTY TN/N AL MON THRU MID WEEK. THIS WILL BRING SIG MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY TO AREA THRU THE WEEK. AREA REMAINS IN UPSLOPE FLOW WITH WEAK ISENTROPIC LIFT MUCH OF THE WEEK. BUMPING CHANCE RAIN UP TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT AS MODELS INDICATE LIKELY OR BETTER POPS...THEN GOOD CHANCE TUE...CHANCE WED. THIS LOOKS REASONABLE WITH LAST COUPLE RUNS BEING FAIRLY CONSISTENT. AFTER MID WEEK AVN HAS H5 HIGH BUILD OVER SE US FROM THE E...PUSHING UPPER LOW BACK INTO LOWER MS VALLEY BY FRI. THIS SHOULD KEEP AREA IN MOIST LOW LEVEL FLOW WITH CONTINUED UPSLOPE AND ISENTROPIC LIFT THRU THU NIGHT. WILL KEEP CHANCE RAIN AS IS BUT EXTEND IT INTO FRI. MOIST LL FLOW MAY CONT THRU WEEKEND BUT WILL NOT INCREASE CHANCE RAIN THRU WEEKEND ATTM SINCE EACH DAYS FCST POPS DECREASE WITH TIME. FCSTID = 77 GSP 69 82 67 81 / 60 60 50 50 AND 69 83 67 83 / 60 60 50 50 CLT 69 80 67 81 / 60 60 50 50 HKY 67 79 65 77 / 60 60 50 50 AVL 65 77 62 76 / 60 60 50 50 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RB
SCZ003-006>014-019-251830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1236 PM EDT SUN AUG 25 2002 ...STRONG WIND PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS THE UPSTATE... A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS...WITH FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ...WILL CONTINUE MOVING EAST ACROSS THE UPSTATE THROUGH MID- AFTERNOON. A FEW OF THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED JUST NORTH OF ANDERSON AS OF 1236 PM...AND SHOULD CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST AROUND 25 MPH...EFFECTING SOUTHERN GREENVILLE AND NORTHERN LAURENS COUNTIES THROUGH 130 PM...AND POSSIBLY AS FAR EAST AS SOUTHERN SPARTANBURG AND UNION COUNTIES AFTER 2 PM. LOCALLY STRONG STORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE ACROSS GREENWOOD AND ABBEVILLE COUNTIES AS WELL.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
156 PM EDT SUN AUG 25 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
142 PM 4 NE GRAY COURT SC WIND DAMAGE
08/25/02 LAURENS TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
COUNTY 911.
55NCZ068-070-071-082-SCZ003-006>009-012>014-252000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 159 PM EDT SUN AUG 25 2002 ...STRONG WIND PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS HEADING INTO EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE UPSTATE... A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS...WITH FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ...WAS CENTERED JUST SOUTH OF THE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG METRO AREA AT 2 PM. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING EAST ACROSS THE EASTERN UPSTATE THROUGH 3 PM...AND THEN POSSIBLY AFFECTING THE CHARLOTTE METRO AREA BY 4 PM. THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH...WILL CONTINUE...MAINLY FOR LOCALES SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 85.
The Greer radar (KGSP), 56 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:00 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A 16-year-old male received minor injuries when lightning struck a nearby tree.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Carolina in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in South Carolina, August 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: 5312800.