Name: Damaging Wind in South Carolina, August 25, 2002
Start: 2002-08-25T12:37
End: 2002-08-25T12:37
Location: South Carolina

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $10,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

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.

What forecasters said that day

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, 10:04 AM EST, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 10:04 AM EST, 2 hours 33 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1104 AM EDT SUN AUG 25 2002

AFTER TAKING A QUICK LOOK AT INCOMING 12Z ETA DATA...LOOKS LIKE
IDEA OF INCREASING LARGE SCALE UVV OUT AHEAD OF APRCHG S/WV
ALONG WITH DEEPENING RH OVER THE CWFA IS STILL ON TRACK. THIS
SCENARIO IS UNFOLDING BASED ON LATEST 88D TRENDS...ACRS THE
UPPER SAVANNAH RVR VALLEY. WILL PROBABLY WIND UP WITH MORE
PCPN CVRG THAN CURRENTLY ADVERTISED AND WILL RAISE POPS
ACCORDINGLY CWFA WIDE. WITH WIDESPREAD CLDS WILL EVALUATE
OPENING UP MAX TEMP RANGES TOWARD LOWER SIDE AS WELL.

FCSTID = 55
GSP   87  69  82  67 /  60  40  50  50
AND   89  69  83  67 /  60  40  50  50
CLT   90  69  80  67 /  50  50  60  60
HKY   86  67  79  65 /  50  50  60  60
AVL   80  65  77  62 /  80  50  60  60

.GSP...
GA...NONE.
NC...NONE.
SC...NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 25, 11:36 AM EST, 1 hour 1 minute before

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.

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 33 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:36 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Laurens

When: August 25, 12:37 PM EST
Where: Laurens County, Gray Court
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Property damage: $10,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 34.600, -82.117

Several trees were blown down. One fell on a house.

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in South Carolina in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in South Carolina, August 2002

Sources

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: 5314092.