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 1, 1:30 PM EST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 230 PM EDT MON JUL 1 2002 TSRA ARE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP ALONG THE EASTERN ESCARPMENT OF THE BLUE RIDGE. CAPES ARE AOA 3000 AND WET BULB ZEROS ARE UNDER 10KFT. SFC DWPTS HAVE HARDLY MIXED OUT AT ALL TDA AND LLVL MOISTURE FLUX DIVERGENCE HAS BEEN BULLSEYED OVER THE NC MTNS FOR SEVERAL HRS NOW. IN ADDITION...A COUPLE WEAK H5 WAVES WL CROSS THE REGION FROM NE TO SW OVERNGHT. WHAT THIS MEANS IS THAT CONVECTION SHOULD KEEP GOING WELL INTO THE NGHT. AS FOR 1ST PERIOD THE AREAL COVERAGE...ITS TOO SOON TO REALLY TELL. WL INITIALLY PENCIL IN LIKELY POPS OVER THE SW CWA AND CHANCE POPS N TNGT...THOUGH IF THE VORT OVER WV CONTINUES TO ORGANIZE CONVECTION...WE COULD BE FACING SOMETHING ORGANIZED IN THE NRN ZONES LATE. TUE LOOKS VERY SIMILAR TO TDA. WEAK SHEAR AIXS WL CONTINUE TO BE ORIENTED NE TO SW ACROSS CWA. LLVL MOISTURE CONVERGENCE WL CONTINUE OVER THE CWA TO THE SE OF THESE UPPER WAVES DURING THE DAY...W/GOOD AREAL COVERAGE LIKELY AGAIN IN THE AFTN...ESPECIALLY OVER AND NEAR THE HIGHER TERRAIN. BY WED...DEEP MID CONTINENTAL RIDGE WL BEGIN TO PUSH FARTHER TO THE EAST. THE COLD TROF E OF THE RIDGE SHOULD STILL BE STRONG ENUF FOR TSRA IN THE AFTN...BUT SUSPECT THAT AREAL COVERAGE WL NOT BE AS GREAT. DEEP ELY FLOW ON THE 4TH. NO LLVL CONVERGENCE TO SPEAK OF ANYMORE...AND SUBSIDENCE AROUND THE RIDGE SHOULD REALLY EAT INTO OUR INSTABILITY. WE MAY SEE HARDLY ANYTHING THU...BUT WL HOLD ON TO 30 POPS. FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY... FOR FRI...AVN PUSHES A BACK DOOR COOL FRONT INTO AT LEAST THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE CWA. ECMWF SHOW A SIMILAR BUT WEAKER FEATURE SO WILL PRESERVE CHC POPS OF AFTERNOON TO EVENING TS/SH. FRONT SHOULD WASH OUT SAT AND SUN AND WILL KEEP FORECAST DRY WITH ONLY SILENT 20 POPS. MONDAY...REGION SHOULD BE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF HIGH PRESSURE AND WILL KEEP DRY AS WELL. TEMPS SHOULD BE OVER MEX VALUES AS PLAINS RIDGE IS EXPECTED TO BUILD IN FASTER THAN THE AVN ADVERTISES...THEREFORE WILL KEEP TEMPS GENERALLY HIGHER THAN GUIDANCE. FCSTID = 14 GSP 72 92 72 92 / 60 30 30 30 AND 72 92 72 92 / 60 30 30 30 CLT 71 92 71 92 / 30 30 30 30 HKY 70 89 70 89 / 40 40 40 30 AVL 66 85 66 85 / 60 50 50 40 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. MCAVOY/NED
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
318 PM EDT MON JUL 01 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
310 PM ROSMAN NC 1.25 INCH HAIL
07/01/02 TRANSYLVANIA HAIL BROKE WINDSHIELD ON
EM VEHICLE. REPORTED BY
TRANSYLVANIA EOC.
LAMBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
355 PM EDT MON JUL 01 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
350 PM 5 NW PUMPKINTOWN SC .75 INCH HAIL
07/01/02 PICKENS DIME SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY
RAIN REPORTED BY CO-OP
PATPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
358 PM EDT MON JUL 01 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
356 PM GREENVILLE SC .75 INCH HAIL
07/01/02 GREENVILLE SPOTTER REPORTED NEAR BOB
JONES UNIV.
LAMBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
420 PM EDT MON JUL 01 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
410 PM 5 NNW FRANKLIN NC WIND DAMAGE
07/01/02 MACON TREES REPORTED DOWN BY
MACON EOC.
LAMBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
453 PM EDT MON JUL 01 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
355 PM 2 E CLARKESVILLE GA WIND DAMAGE
07/01/02 HABERSHAM COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS
CENTER REPORTS A TREE
BLOWN OVER AND DAMAGE TO
A HOUSE ON ANTIOCH CHURCH
ROAD.
HGPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
501 PM EDT MON JUL 01 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
455 PM 3 N SWANNANOA NC .88 INCH HAIL
07/01/02 BUNCOMBE SPOTTER REPORTS NICKEL
SIZE HAIL.
HGThe Greer radar (KGSP), 59 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:16 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Two cows were killed as a result of lightning. A grass fire was also started.
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, 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: 5309533.