2 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 Columbia, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 2, 1:45 PM EST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 245 PM EDT TUE JUL 2 2002 UPPER LOW OFF THE FLORIDA COAST TO DRIFT NORTH THROUGH THURSDAY. H5 RIDGE HOLDS WEST OF THE AREA. NORTHEAST FLOW ALOFT ALLOWS WEAK VORTS TO CROSS THE AREA. SURFACE TROUGH TO HOLD ACROSS THE REGION AND AIRMASS WILL BE MODERATELY UNSTABLE. THE FORECAST WILL KEEP SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION THROUGH THURSDAY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 70S AND HIGHS IN THE LOW/MID 90S FOR WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... UPPER RIDGE OVER OH VLY FRIDAY WITH UPR LOW DEVELOPING BACK INTO THE GULF OF MEX. WEAK SURFACE FRONT IN THE AREA. HEIGHTS RISE FOR SATURDAY. WILL MENTION SCATTERED TSTMS FRIDAY AND WIDELY SCATTERED SATURDAY. MORE RIDGING SUNDAY AND MONDAY. NEXT FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE NORTH TUESDAY WITH TROUGH OVER THE NORTHEAST U.S. WILL HOLD OFF MENTIONING CHANCE OF PRECIP FOR TUESDAY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 60S/LOW 70S AND HIGHS IN THE LOWER 90S. FCSTID = 10 CAE 72 95 72 94 / 20 30 20 30 AGS 69 94 70 94 / 20 30 20 30 SSC 72 94 72 94 / 20 30 22 30 OGB 72 94 72 94 / 20 30 20 30 .CAE... GA...NONE. SC...NONE. LM
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
442 PM EDT TUE JUL 02 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
345 PM 8E JEFFERSON SC WIND DAMAGE
07/02/02 CHESTERFIELD SEVERAL TREES DOWN ON
ANGELUS ROAD BETWEEN
JEFFERSON AND
CHESTERFIELD. REPORTED BY
STATE HIGHWAY PATROL AND
PAGELAND POLICE.
DCMPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
703 PM EDT TUE JUL 02 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
646 PM BLYTHEWOOD SC WIND DAMAGE
07/02/02 RICHLAND RICHLAND COUNTY SHERIFF
REPORTED TREES DOWN,
POWER LINES DOWN, POWER
LINES ON FIRE, ON GROVER
WILSON RD NEAR BLYTHEWOOD
AT 646 PM.
TTHThe Columbia radar (KCAE), 66 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:16 UTC.
2 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Three men in a metal shed were struck and injured by lightning, none seriously.
A woman was struck in her home through the telephone line. She was not seriously injured.
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: 5314718, 5314719.